Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

42 reviews

eloquentmuse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this book. It’s a fantasy romance set in a world that runs on science, magic, and gods. The main character has been dying since she was born, and her love interest is the local vampire hermit. 

I liked how well thought out the plot, the characterization, and even their growing romance seemed to be. The god of nature is cruel and fickle but not evil. The vampire-since-birth is ignorant of humanity’s most innate knowledge: the briefness of life, desperation of dying, the inevitability of death. The humans are stiff-necked and narrow in their views and stubborn in their refusal to risk their short lives to better the world. Love is presented in its many forms as the one thing worth living and dying for. 

It was poetic in ways and lighthearted in ways. Well worth a read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

escsmith's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

A sweet novella, related to Broadbent's series in the same world. 
This took a different tone from the Serpent and the Wings of Night, I liked the more cozy feeling to this. 
The main character was curious and full of determination, which I liked. I felt like I didn't know these characters well enough yet to really connect to them and their story, the length of the book makes that difficult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

coveredinivy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and War

thevanessa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It was so cute. You could read this without reading the actual series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

doahdancer's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.75

Fun, but very short with little world building or character development. I read books 1&2 of The Crowns of Nyaxia before picking this up and I think it's a pretty sensible order. This could be read between 1&2 also, but all the world building is in book 1. This couple plays a minor role in book 2 and it was fun to see afterwards how they came to be.

The MCs of this story are more likable than the MCs of the main storyline, but they are also less complex. The FMC is well developed because it is her view we're seeing it all unfold through, but the MMC is underdeveloped in my opinion.

Overall a nice read that I easily finished up in half a day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

greyskale's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-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

4.75

I adored this little book so much! I related to Lilith, I loved her struggles with human connection. She is very clearly autistic and I love the representation as an autistic person myself. 

I loved the blossoming love between Vale and Lilith and all the little ways he understood her when everyone else did not. Watching their relationship grow was truly something else. I loved these two so much 🖤

It had a satisfying, heart warming ending with a bittersweet tinge. Can’t wait to read more about these two. 

The only reason this is not a full 5 star read is the lack of world building, I had a hard time visualizing where this all took place. But the characters and story were great! 

Vale: I like her, I like that autistic woman

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

There is a passage about a needle that made me cringe at the description.

there is a part where Lilith is attacked on the road, the attackers tell her to remove her dress, it is implied they wanted to assault her. Nothing happens and she is saved before her dress is removed

Mentions of rape

v_____'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense 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

5.0

I will never shut up praising how Cassandra Broadbent describes things, especially Gods, until forever 🙏🙏



Plus: THIS is my new life motto now:😌

... about two centuries ago, I decided that I would never again do anything I didn’t want to do. And I don’t want to...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

kenziedugan's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Terminal illness

shinyfox's review against another edition

dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Rape