Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

8 reviews

mothmania's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Murder, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Violence, and Alcohol

prairieraven's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Cancer, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Abandonment, Alcohol, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Infidelity

rumblebree's review against another edition

dark funny tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Cursing, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Murder, Rape, and Torture

nicoleanthony's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Death, Car accident, Alcohol, Medical content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

lycheejelly's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cancer, Alcoholism, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death of parent, Rape, Infidelity, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Blood, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Animal death, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Medical content, Stalking, Outing, Body shaming, Classism, Incest, Biphobia, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

jjreads331's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Apropos of the subject matter, I devoured this book. Dorothy has an incredibly distinct narrative voice, and I appreciated the faux memoir satire of it all. The writing about both food and murder and sex was visceral, sensual, and a little bit over the top. There were certainly parts that made me want to vomit a bit, but the descriptions of the food brought me right back in. A fun quick read for a darker sense of humor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Rape, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

nahochacon's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative tense 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

4.0

A certain hunger es un libro que depende 100% en su personaje principal y que logra capturarte. Una villana como ninguna: divertida, fría, extravagante (de no ser por lo que hizo, un modelo a seguir) que nos muestra a través de una de sus pasiones-la comida-como éstas, y su mente, la llevaron a su caída. Sumamente reflexivo, este libro nos demuestra lo que es ser mujer, nos adentra al mundo de la comida y nos pone a pensar sobre ambas. Un poco pesado u no para la gente ligera de corazón, muy entretenido 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Murder

mickie's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is a succulent, delicious, and deranged as its main character. A wild ride the whole way through, with gastronomic prose that will have you licking you fingers to turn the page. Smart and sexy and minority fucked-up, it’s the book to start 2021. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Medical content, and Violence