Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

9 reviews

isabelvegga's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

Soy un mar de lágrimas!!!

No tengo palabras ahora mismo para expresar este libro…  Carlos Ruiz Zafón era maravilloso🧡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Terminal illness and Murder

Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

doppy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

bee_a_friend's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Ableism, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Gore, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: War, Xenophobia, Self harm, and Forced institutionalization

michaelion's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Okay.

I like stories with kids uncovering forgotten histories and secrets, especially in this place with its feeling of being a forgotten land. Don't like the manic pixie dream next door, but hell it was written in the 90s I'll cut it some slack. I judge books by their covers and I bought this as a teen because it was beautiful. The book itself is nice, fine. Feels like a debut novel. So much of the backstories being told in the form of dialogue instead of just switching perspectives to tell the story in the past took me out of it. If I'm thinking "People don't talk like this!" whenever I read something, I know I'm taking points off. I don't like how quick the ending was, but only because you didn't really get to sit with the main character and the titular character after the mystery's been solved. So it's a fine book like it's okay. It's whatever. I'm being harsh. It's alright.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Ableism, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Xenophobia, Blood, Drug use, and Torture

Minor: Hate crime, Cancer, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, War, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Death of parent

isadorareads's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.75

An early Zafron  - this book is a YA about Oscar his relationship with Marina and her father Germán.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Terminal illness

involves young death

susysstories's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

Despite the bad narration I loved this story with elements of gothic horror, mystery, romance, family drama, etc. I might have to put it on my list to read it myself one day instead of listening to the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Terminal illness

wiktoria88's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Self harm, and Terminal illness

rachel_here's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

bookswithjk's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• 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

As a tale about life and death, about the drive to stop and reverse the inevitable decay of our own bodies, Marina is a tense imaginative mystery with elements of Frankenstein woven into it, although the “scientist” did not create the monster but instead became his own monstrous creation. One brief particular scene at the end brought to mind Nina from Full Metal Alchemist.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Violence