Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

22 reviews

maddireads13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

emmehooks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abortion, and Pregnancy

frenchvanillapowdercreamer's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The best book I’ve read so far this year. Fantastic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, and Suicide

ajpotz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

it was like girlboss ish and then like jonnie basically just eating pierce tf up and then like law of assumption from the author

imagine killing someone bc of a fake story someone told

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, and Suicide

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Cancer and Abortion

itsheyfay's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicide, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Miscarriage and Vomit

ronnieb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Trigger Warning: Chronic Sickness, Death of a Child, Drug Abuse

I did not expect this book to work for me as much as it did. After liking “The Wife Upstairs” a lot and being really disappointed by “Reckless Girls” I was not even going to give this one a try. I did not pay attention to the plot at all so when I was looking for a quick audiobook and it was available at my library I decided to just try. Looking into I probably would have found it interesting because it has tropes I love. Friends taking a trip to a secluded location, multiple timelines, those timelines overlapping. These are all classic tropes that get me all the time. 

The back-and-forth tension between the timelines was so exciting and kept me hooked. The frenemy of the Emily/Chess relationship that mirrored the rocky Mari/Laura was a solid narrative choice that keeps the reader engaged but both timelines were distinct enough to not get lost in which POV you were in. The chapters were long and would move back and forth a lot which using the audiobook was easy to track but when reading physically I dislike long chapters so that is something to note that could affect the enjoyment level one may feel. I think the thriller/mystery elements were maybe obvious but added to the tension because you could feel these large confrontations coming it was just a matter of when and what would blow the lid for everything. 

Overall, I loved this. Is it the best, most shocking, well-written mystery-thriller novel? No, but it is fun and quick which will be perfect for Summer beach reads or a quick afternoon read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Chronic illness and Drug use

tamara_joy's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Vomit, and Classism

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I have mixed feelings about the book. I did like some of the twists and turns, but I wish there had been a chronic illness rep that wasn't

psychosomatic. I also preferred the ending that Mary wrote to

  what the conclusion actually was. Overall it kept me interested but it was disappointing in the end. And a bit predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, and Murder

kitaface's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Murder