Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

8 reviews

wildflower_magic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Another fantastic read by Clarissa Broadbent! This book is a novella following characters in the Crowns of Nyaxia series. It can be read after book 1, but I read it after book 2 and think that was a good time as I knew the characters well and this novella provided interesting backstory. I love the characters. The main character, Lilith, presents with many neurodivergent traits in a respectful and accurate way. This novella follows her journey as she tries to protect her loved ones from a god's curse that was placed upon her town. She decides she needs some help from the broody vampire who lives outside of town, thus leading her to create a deal with Vale. Vale is 100% book boyfriend vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism, Grief, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: War and Sexual assault

immdanii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bemurphy28's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Violence

lovejasmine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gore, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

dkgreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

I liked this shirt story a lot. It introduces some characters that will apparently appear in the next novel of this series. I absolutely loved Lilith and Vale’s relationship! Totally swoon worthy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Chronic illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Hate crime

unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Murder, War, Chronic illness, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault

alilbitofeveryth1ng's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

maxyne21's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Love it! Read in practically one day. I obviously will attribute the fast paced developments to it being s short novella, but I would have loved to learn a little more about her illness and her relationship with her sister. 

Not to be that person who tries to label and diagnose characters, but Lilith felt like she jumped right out of the autistic section of the DSM 5 and textbook chronically ill, but it did not feel like forced or awkward representation. It was nice to see these traits described so well and naturally, without either being offensive or too forced. Maybe it wasn’t intended, but honestly, accidental natural representation is sometimes better than direct representation. 

Per usual for this author, the descriptions of death and decay are often very haunting and brutal, even the less graphic descriptions, but I love it. It makes it easier to visualize what’s happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

Minor: Rape