Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz

4 reviews

grayghostbby's review

emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Ableism, Vomit, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Medical content, Racism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cancer, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Child death, Body shaming, Cursing, Antisemitism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Misogyny

someonelikeblue's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Ableism

Moderate: Abandonment and Child death

Minor: Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Sexism, and Vomit

plumpaperbacks's review

lighthearted 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

5.0

I knew after reading only ten pages of Sick Kids in Love that I’d love it, and I was right. Moskowitz wrote such a compelling, realistic story, and I sped through it. I loved Isabel’s friends and Sasha’s family, and I loved Isabel and Sasha most of all. They were well-written, and their friends-to-lovers arc might be one of my all-time favorites. Nearly every interaction between them was adorable or amusing or both. I know I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time, and I can definitely see myself rereading it either as a pick-me-up or just because I miss Sasha.

Representation

• Jewish protagonist with rheumatoid arthritis
• Jewish bisexual love interest with Gaucher disease
• Jamaican lesbian side character
• lesbian side character
• sapphic side couple (f/f)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Ableism and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Vomit, and Misogyny

also contains multiple scenes at a hospital

arieldeborah's review against another edition

emotional funny informative fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 

"God forbid [being sick] be an important part of your identity that you're just living with."

Writing reviews about five star books can be hard sometimes, it's much easier to write about a book you disliked - or better yet hated.
But Sick Kids in Love deserves to be talked about - because it was fucking fantastic.
I was very anxious going into this book, I mean the title itself made me not even consider it for a while because I try not to read the books romanticizing dying children anymore - for many and obvious reasons. BUT then I saw all the good reviews, then the tagline. "They don't die in this one."
So I gave it a chance.
And I'm so, so glad I did.
This book is the inverse of the problematic prototype. Hannah Moskowitz really did just sit down and write a book that said fuck you too all the others and was fantastic in its own right.

"Sometimes even the things you love are going to be too draining."

The characters are real and flawed (I will fight for Isabel and Sasha as separate badass beings - that overthinking panicky mess and chaotic disaster bi), the relationships with family and friends are complex works in progress, and the dialogue is deeply amusing. Amongst all that cotton candy goodness, the book also features some interwoven serious conversations about ableism, having an invisible disability, the reality of how gender plays into that, socioeconomic priveledges, and gaslighting (by medical professionals and oneself).
In the end, I wouldn't change anything about this book. I read it in a day and loved every second of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Ableism, Medical content, Misogyny, and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

For child death:

It is kinda complicated, but there is an imaginary dead child referenced several times in the story.