Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

44 reviews

s_lorenz's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder, Transphobia, Medical content, Death, and Dementia

asahome's review against another edition

3.25

TL;DR:  A murder mystery turns a boarding school into a dangerous place. A girl deals with the problem of returning to a place she doesn’t belong when people refuse to believe she is different. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Violence, Blood, Transphobia, and Medical content

avisreadsandreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia, Self harm, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Acephobia/Arophobia, Deadnaming, and Medical content

Minor: Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

blombern's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

Very interesting concept. It's all about a boarding school for children who return from portal worlds and are not accepted by their parents who want them to get better. I personally did not like this book, as it turned into a murder mystery fairly quickly. I also didn't like the explanations of the portal worlds themselves as they were put into weird categories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

lahars_little_library's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, Death, Murder, Medical content, and Child death

razorfangz's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Body horror, Child abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief and Eating disorder

Minor: Deadnaming

Eye gore

librarymouse's review

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

This book has great asexual representation! The mystery is not too hard to solve, but it's explored in a fun and engaging way. I enjoy the different moral alignments of the characters and how they affiliate and differ depending on the worlds that drew them in. Jack is a particular favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Body horror, Child death, Death, Medical content, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Eating disorder, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Deadnaming

Minor: Animal death

Eating disorder tagged because there is a major focus on the main character's eating habits and her loss of a need to eat in a way that would sustain people due to the changes to her body as imposed by the rules in the Halls of the Dead.

laurenevlyn's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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

This book is soooooo amazingly unique and imaginative and spectacularly written. If you like fleshed out characters and their interactions with each other (along with a slight murder mystery to keep things interesting), I would 100% recommend Every Heart a Doorway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Medical content, Death, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

xosirenox's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Eating disorder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Deadnaming, Kidnapping, Transphobia, Animal death, and Medical content

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I liked this! A very quick read that I would’ve savored if I’d known it was so perfectly Halloween-y! 

I will say that I guessed the baddie by accident very early on but said “no, they have to be a red herring”… Lol! 

A tad predictable, but enjoyable nonetheless. A really interesting zoom in on what fantasy worlds mean to children, and what they protect them from. Not sure what to make of Kade’s story to be honest; it’s much bleaker than the rest & I didn’t feel we got a satisfactory explanation for that. 

I also feel that Nancy is overshadowed by nearly every other character; she felt like a shadow of a person there only to introduce us to the universe & experience shock on our behalf. this was a book where the main character was the least interesting person in it.

Halloween read 1/5(?) down!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Transphobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Child abuse, Murder, Bullying, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Violence, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia