Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks

5 reviews

nautilus18's review

emotional funny reflective sad

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Body shaming

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Ableism, and Fatphobia

Minor: Sexual assault, Medical content, and Murder

bmitch's review

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, Rape, Medical content, Sexism, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Vomit

hannahberg's review against another edition

I think someone without a history in treatment centers could love the whole of this book. The psych ward culture became too vivid for me to continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Body shaming, and Medical content

lbressel's review

emotional informative reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Fatphobia

Minor: Car accident, Excrement, and Vomit

demo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-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

4.5

 This book is like if Chuck Palahniuk's Damned and Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit had a trans baby. Palpable resonances with many different texts, some which Milks lists as direct influences in the back matter (e.g. Goosebumps books, Nancy Drew, Matilda, the documentary Thin, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, and Judith Butler's work), and others unmentioned (like Ghost World and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak).

"If adolescence is a passageway, a twilight zone or liminal space, it's also the time when, like thick blobs of gummy dough, we get poured into shape and rise. It's a plastic time, a time of self-discovery and growth, and in some cases tremendous creativity. Teenagehood is that stage when you get to become who you are, or who you can be. Ah, there's the rub: How can you be who you are when—Margaret doesn't know how to finish this question." (p. 99)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Car accident, Death, Dysphoria, Excrement, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Grief, Medical content, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts