Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

11 reviews

shinyfox's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Rape

carlalaureano's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

nova_lilias's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Death of parent and War

lucindahoi's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Blood, and War

emilywemily6's review

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I really enjoyed this novella, more than the duology! I found the length perfect and the story was sweet. It was slower-paced than other novellas I have read, which I didn’t mind but since I read it in multiple sittings I feel like I might have missed a little bit of the characterization of Lillith and Vale. So I would have loved a little more characterization at the beginning of the book, but I also might have missed it. I enjoyed seeing this relationship progress and how it felt right for Lillith to choose Vale.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Grief, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Bullying

Minor: Medical content

yilliun's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Initially, I didn’t want to read this book and I didn’t have any interest in these two characters. I am glad that I decided to give it a shot. 

It’s a quick read and very fast paced. I think that it does provide important context to Vale as a character and how he changes his opinions of Turned vampires. I almost wish we got more of Vale/ Lilith in Ashes BUT I understand that Broadbent had a lot of loose ends to tie up. She didn’t have the benefit of a multi/ third person POV to do that.

I do think this book suffers from similar issues that the other two CoN books do such as leaving out bits of world building in favor of keeping the plot moving.

It did seem odd to me that Lilith was very insistant that she was sick and ailing and dying when she was the only healthy person in Adcova. This later sets up that her father saved her life at the cost of their village dying. I do wish Broadbent took more time to pause on that with Lilith and get her thinking on why she’s not dying of that dust plague BEFORE the big end reveal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Medical content

Moderate: Death

Minor: Death of parent

ka_ke's review

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Blood, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Classism, Gore, War, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death of parent, and Xenophobia

cryosphinx's review

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

What a delightful short story. It felt so well done and fully fleshed out the ti forgot it was a novella and got sad it was already over. In that short time, you really get a good feel for Vale and Lilith, and I'm excited to see how they tie into Book 2 because they are just wonderful. The only bummer is we don't get anymore than those two, and when there's another character it's really brief. I suppose it IS a novella though. But it was still very good and a wonderful concept.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

Minor: Death of parent, War, and Rape

aklovekorn's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Blood

lovejasmine's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Gore, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Death of parent