Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

5 reviews

michayla13's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Rape, Incest, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Drug use, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, Cancer, Blood, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Incest, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, War, Terminal illness, Racism, Blood, Trafficking, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Forced institutionalization

tmickey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Child death, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcoholism

Minor: Slavery, Murder, Sexual assault, Blood, Homophobia, Incest, and Forced institutionalization

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: War, Classism, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Infidelity, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Incest, Child death, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Colonisation, Homophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Ableism, and Sexual content

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It took me nearly two months to finish Romantic Outlaws, but I am so glad I persevered. The amount of research that Charlotte Gordon did is staggering (over fifty pages of notes!) - and it shows on every single page of this dual biography.

More to come later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical trauma, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Murder, Fatphobia, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, and Terminal illness

One mention of the g**** (anti-Ziganist) slur.

qqjj's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Terminal illness