Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

2 reviews

maya_moksha's review against another edition

3.0

I  enjoyed the writing style of this meandering journey. 

However, important to note, many of the offshoot storylines will remain open. Plus, the ending is reminiscent to being in English class, writing a great story, and your teacher gives a 2 minute pencils down warning, so you suddenly have your main character wake up from the dream. Thus, while this ending is different from a dream, the story is over abruptly and with so much lost potential.

I agree with other reviews, that it would be a good book club choice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, and Medical trauma

alomie's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a very sad book, I don't know why I thought this was going to be a chilled adventure book with mild peril, because oh me oh my is this not it. 

It was really harsh in places and I'll put some spoilers below so you can see what I mean. 

shooting a baby monkey from the trees, hunting a tiger goes wrong and they shoot a child, death of the main character amongst other things. That ending. Fuuuuuck. Devastating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Slavery, and Colonisation