Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Confess by Colleen Hoover

23 reviews

booooooook_person's review

1.5

This was the first collen hoover book I ever read and I hope it will be the last. The only reason I actually finished this is because I was buddy reading it with a friends and she needed to finish this book to reach er yearly reading goal. I hated all the characters and it was so incredibly boring that I sometimes chose to do absolutely nothing over trying to finish this book. I wish the book hadn’t added actual photos of Owen’s art, because then I could’ve at least imagined that he was a good artist. I thought the sex scenes would’ve at least been kinda decently written, since collen hoover is known to have a lot of sex in her books, but even the scenes where both characters gave consent, it seemed like I was reading a non consensual sex scene. I hated this book deeply and it showed me how little i could care about a story.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Death, and Car accident

maddison20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Car accident, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Child death, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Addiction, Death of parent, Blood, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Child death

Minor: Car accident, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Addiction, Blood, Cancer, and Chronic illness

jenna_buzza's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Cancer

the_romance_bookie's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

erinj_96's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.0

Not groundbreaking or amazing but not bad either.  Very fast paced and definitely swept me up in the story right away.  I liked the way everything was connected in the end.  Very middle of the road Colleen Hoover romance which isn’t always a bad thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

kingal's review

emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Violence, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Car accident, and Cancer

emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Drug use, Sexual violence, Blood, Addiction, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Cancer, Alcoholism, Rape, Medical content, Grief, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Drug abuse

amanda_reads13's review

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Terminal illness

Spoiler

instalove

aridd1's review

hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Car accident, and Domestic abuse

bizarabooks's review

emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This book is a rollercoaster of emotions, I went from smiling to crying. Despite being part of the 'insta love' trope the book develops in to so much more than that and the connection between the characters is so believable. The book moves so quickly and I love that we get to see Auburn's and Owen's POV's as we really get to get in to the characters feelings and emotions. It's my first COHO book and I can't wait to read more from her. A truly amazing and heart wrenching book would definitely recommend but please read trigger warnings before hand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Addiction, and Gaslighting