Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

33 reviews

jordynbean's review

mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

gmbooks11_'s review

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.0

There’s a plot twist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Body horror, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Suicide, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

chillyk123's review

emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

rose_k's review

emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

Plot is a decent and interesting idea but the writing is not very good. The characters and relationship is hard to cheer for, so overall it was an average book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Vomit and Medical trauma

k_huddle's review

slow-paced

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

This book was just gross. I hated it and will never read it again. Nothing about the love interest's behavior is romantic or okay, so I don't get how this is a romance novel. It's disturbing if this behavior is ok to most people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Stalking and Vomit

johanna_1402's review

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Medical trauma

thatswhatshanread's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

Ah CoHo, I hate to do this and give an unpopular opinion… But unfortunately I was not a fan of this one.

If you’re into Instalove—two characters falling in love at first sight, all consuming love straight out of the gate—then you’ll be immediately pulled in. I guess I found out with November 9 that I don’t really care for that genre of romance. Ben and Fallon’s instant attraction didn’t seem believable to me.

The main thing that pulled my rating down was not something that went away throughout the story as it was literally the character of Ben, the MMC. From the beginning he gave me the ick by the way he talked and interacted with Fallon, without even knowing her. He was too confident and domineering and controlling for my taste, disguised as the “nice guy” who saw past Fallon’s imperfections. DUDE YOU’VE SPENT ONLY A FEW HOURS WITH HER. Idk, the simp behavior jumped out.

The plot had potential and I liked the sections being split up by the same date each year. However, that further drove the nail in the coffin that was my effort to give Ben and Fallon time to grow on me. Instead, with each year passing, I found their “connection” more and more forced and weirdly obsessive. 

Hoover’s writing wasn’t bad, she always has great pacing in her novels, in fact. For me, the main relationship in this book just really put me off and the rest of the elements that I liked didn’t make up for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Body shaming, Medical content, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Suicide, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Violence, Cancer, Alcohol, Car accident, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking and Panic attacks/disorders

hollysutto's review

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Car accident, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Suicide, Violence, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

eliana_benyam's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Car accident, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

meluhnie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Grief

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Ableism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Body shaming, and Blood