Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Hat ébredés by Mur Lafferty

16 reviews

dogearedbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Religious bigotry, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Gore

Minor: Child abuse, Trafficking, and Torture

bookb1itch's review against another edition

Not a problem with the book. i LOVE the premise. It was just all a bit too hard to read when i am as tired as i am now.  Very complicated compared to my usual reads.  Will come back to it.  This is something that would be great on audio, but i can't see it out there atm.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Medical content

schnaucl's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

It's a little unclear how cloning works.  The expectation seems to be that clones will all have access to wealth, although I don't think it's ever said explicitly that only the very wealthy can afford it.  Sometimes there seems to be an assumption by writers that anyone who lives long enough must eventually amass a fortune (contrary to how the real world seems to work).

Unfortunately, the main premise doesn't really hold up that well.   Some of the six don't seem to have done anything worse to their patron than just telling her no, which doesn't seem like it should be enough to get on some kind of hated enemies list.   And if these six are the only ones who are awake, it would seem like they should be the worst of the lot in terms of the wrongs they'd done her.   Maybe you can make a case for Wolfgang or Joanna, but not the others.

And if the point is to give her enemies hope and then take it away they would need to be awake for that.  Most of them would seem to go into cryosleep and then just wake up on earth (if everything had gone wrong and IAN returned them, as intended).  They'd be disappointed after, and down some cash, but it wouldn't be ongoing suffering.

Maybe the idea is supposed to be that these six has the worst combination of personalities to fly the ship together?   But again, I fail to see how some of them "deserved" to be on that ship in the first place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Amazing! Fantastic! Fast-paced, character driven, murder mystery in space. SO much fun. But specifically fun I enjoy. It has clones, witty banter, characters with secrets in their past, surprisingly deep ethical discussions. It is a little chaotic and the mystery quickly fades into the background while the characters and their stories become the focus of the book. I wish we had more interactions between the characters themselves, but for me, it was enough to care for them by the end. Even though they do a lot of questionable things. XD It's probably the most problematic and violent found family I've encountered, but what can I do, I still adore this trope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Confinement, Gore, and Hate crime

bibliomania_express's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Classism, Death, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gore, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Vomit, and Medical trauma

pathyatt's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Alcohol, Violence, War, Vomit, Blood, Death, Genocide, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Murder

fraise's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Suicide, Mental illness, Self harm, Dysphoria, and Hate crime

while prejudice and bigotry is a major theme in the book, the majority is against a fictional group (clones)

bbbarttt's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Murder and Suicide

Minor: Medical content and Vomit

hillbilly_heroine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.5

A perfectly-paced murder mystery on a spaceship full of clones. I was in the mood for a page-turner and this delivered. It’s the kind of mystery that’s technically possible for the reader to figure out on their own, but challenging enough that I didn’t get it entirely right. It’s also solid sci-fi, thoughtfully exploring themes around ethics and morality in a future where real death is no longer an issue for many people. Lafferty does a great job reimagining what character development might look like when the characters in question are more or less immortal. Finished it in 2 days and enjoyed every second. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Medical content, Murder, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Vomit