Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

119 reviews

fanchera's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Miscarriage

rachelhilary's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

dobermaier's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

Fantastic read - I really appreciate the focus and care for telling the women’s personal stories. Absolutely horrifying tho. It made ME squeamish at times and I’m a huge horror/body horror person. Learn your labor history, friends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Body horror

Minor: Misogyny and Infertility

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Terminal illness, Body horror, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Ableism, Blood, and Infertility

tea_at_mole_end's review against another edition

dark inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Body horror, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Death, Sexism, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Infertility, Pregnancy, Child death, War, Classism, and Suicidal thoughts

0tter_a's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Infertility

aestass's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This is a comprehensive, historical tale that follows the radium girls of New Jersey and Ohio with detail. However, due to the length of the narrative and difficulty differentiating between the different painters, as well as the various court cases, it's hard to really connect with the victims.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Medical trauma, Cancer, Medical content, and Terminal illness

punk_flower_child's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, Cancer, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: War, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

linda_wolf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Body horror, Cancer, and Death

kemetaur's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring sad

5.0

This book is absolutely horrifying and captivating. 
I couldn't stop talking about this book after I read it. 
The book was so well researched, there was so much information and context provided about the general social environment as radium was new and exciting, how people were thinking about it, trying to find new ways to use it, how different social classes related to it and had access to it, how much information (or not) was shared between scientists, doctors, business owners, and workers during those years. The added context of the times really put everything into perspective and brought the story to life for me. 
Reading about the initial carefree excitement at the beginning was sad and built tension, knowing that things would eventually go so badly. They couldn't have known just how badly. The writing was incredibly vivid. The author really makes you feel like you're right there, watching horrifying events as they unfold, celebrating victories, caring about the people involved as real individuals, not just dry facts and a list of names on a page.

The one thing that really bothered me was the audiobook narrator audibly swallowing after each paragraph throughout the book. I feel like that could have easily been edited out or something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Cancer