Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Raparigas Selvagens by Rory Power

157 reviews

funkylitchick's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Gore, Abandonment, Ableism, Murder, and Body horror

ladyinverse's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? No

4.5

this book had me wanting to eat dry wall it's so good oh my god

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Abandonment, Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Violence

tinnuben's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Gore, Suicide, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Violence, Grief, and Medical content

cko's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Body horror, suspense, mystery, dark academia, nature, and survival themes. Lesbian romance and queer themes. Some more words for this book: haunting. gorgeous. (g)ripping. bloody. propulsive. contained. Really wonderful storytelling, strong characterization, tender and touching platonic love. It felt like a dream (nightmare?) come to life, so magical and real and bizarre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Medical content, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Gore, Blood, Suicide, Body horror, Confinement, and Vomit

Moderate: Grief

rubymitchell14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide, Gore, Self harm, and Animal death

taliatalksbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? N/A

4.0

 Wilder Girls by Rory Power was horrific and gruesome—the perfect vacation read! No but seriously, I really loved this book and the characters. I do wish that there was more information, and I think that the book probably could have done with a few more chapters to wrap things up, but that’s just my personal preference. Overall I think this had great pacing, and I loved following Hetty, Byatt, and Reese. Also, clearly I need to note that the cover for this is absolutely stunning, and as the story unfolds, it becomes more and more fitting. I didn’t want to put this book down, and I think you’ll likely agree if you’re a fan of disease centric thrillers. For me, this had been sitting on my TBR for a while, and I’m so glad I finally got to finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma

bubaubz's review against another edition

challenging hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, and Medical content

Minor: Child death

I feel like this was a good premise but the characters felt a little flat

I just found myself not caring what happened from the bear attack right to the end. I also don't see how they knew quarentene had been breached to pull the plug on the experiments, it would have been fair enough if the navy guy getting infected was the trigger for it all but somehow they magically knew

Still worth a read.

mfrisk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I can’t quite decide how I feel about this one but I think it’s a 3.5 for me. 

I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the build up of the Tox and how that shaped Raxter and those within it. The scenes with the deer and one of the character’s parents were particularly chilling in their descriptions. The dual perspective was done fairly well though I think I was waiting for more from Byatt’s side in terms of her backstory and what drove her to lie. 

Things I didn’t love were the seemingly out of nowhere nature of the romance. While there were some touching moments it was a bit confusing and didn’t feel fully realized. 

And finally the ending was a huge disappointment. While you think the ending would at least give us more information about the navy and cdc involvement or about the tox or even what happens next we instead are led to an ending where we determine what happens. It felt like a chapter was missing and while I wasn’t expecting a happy ending perfect wrap up I definitely didn’t expect what we got. 

I hope to read more from this author as I overall really enjoyed this book but there were definitely some aspects I just wanted to see be pushed further given the darkness of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Child death, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Animal death, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Vomit and Toxic friendship

bibliorama's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.5

Enjoyment - 4
 Start - 3.5
 Characters - 3.5
 Atmosphere - 4
 Plot - 3
 Ending - 3.5
 Style - 4 

Overall - 3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Medical content

kelseyrm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

i liked it a lot, but honestly im not the biggest fan of fantasy books like this bc i can never follow along with the world building. i was really confused abt the tox stuff and the ending felt rushed and unfinished.
but lots of wlw rep i love that! and hetty was a great protagonist. i felt like her and reese didnt have a lot of chemistry tho, like i didnt hate them together but i wasnt loving it(maybe bc it felt rushed too..im more of a slowburn type of girl)
unrelated but some parts made me cringe, you know when you can just tell that an author used to write fanfiction? dont get me wrong i love reading ao3 but i dont want to read borderline fanfiction in an actual published book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Homophobia