Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Raparigas Selvagens by Rory Power

95 reviews

klara42's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Medical content

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I really like the premise of this book but almost the whole story was about the journey to the answer. I think there needed to be a bit more of a build up instead of waiting around for an answer.
Other than the girls’ school aspect, the story was almost exactly like an XFiles episode - which was fun, but it also left me wanting/expecting more. Nothing felt new or exciting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

lovelymisanthrope'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? It's complicated

4.0

This novel was the perfect YA blend of "Lord of the Flies" and "Annihilation". This story follows a group of girls who are isolated because they have been exposed to the "tox" and now find themselves mutating in different ways. The government drops off food to them periodically, and they have no other contact with the outside world. When one of the girls goes missing, they start to investigate further why they are mutating as they are, and why no one seems to help them. 
There was quite a bit of graphic body horror in this book, so be warned before embarking on the journey of this book. I really enjoyed seeing the mystery play out, and I was very satisfied with the ending. This was a very strong debut, and I am excited to see more from Rory Power! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Murder

its_j's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Self harm

lizzyc_16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.25

Honestly this was 5 stars for me until I got to the end. I really loved the book, but at the end it felt unfinished and kind of anticlimactic.

for example, reese, byatt, and hetty highkey just rode a boat away from all their friends who were being LITERALLY BOMBED and the book fricking ended there -_-

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture, Vomit, and Cannibalism

ashmichelle122's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Medical trauma

writingcaia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book gives me hope for authors writing weird new stories which this one is.
On an island there’s Raxter, a girls boarding school, and there’s also the Tox, a disease culling lives or changing the surviving few strange with mutations, the same happening with the fauna and flora of the island for the last eighteen months they think. In Raxter there’re three friends who along with the others surviving girls and female teachers are quarantined and confined to the school grounds unable to explore the rest of the island, only the boat crew allowed to go out to pick up the supplies sent by the navy base close by. 
An opening to the boat crew opens early on in the story and one of the friends, Reese, really wants to get picked out, since she is a native of the island and knows the place, and so is her father who unfortunately disappeared soon after the Tox hit and who she wants to see if he’s still out there, but luck has it it will be one of her friends that gets the chance, Hetty, the one eyed girl, the lead of this tale. However, what she’ll find out there will be more puzzling and disheartening than she could ever have guessed.
Still, they keep on hoping and waiting for a cure, Hetty and Byatt, her beautiful mysterious sister from another mister bff, and even the resigned tough Reese, who stands always slightly apart from the duo. Until the day Byatt goes missing after the usually final flare of the disease comes to her body. Desperate Hetty will do anything to have her friend back and she is able to convince Reese too, easier than she had thought. After all are they friends too, right?
This is a book about fighting to survive, fighting to fit in, fighting to be, but will they make it? Can they overcome their disease, can they survive it, can they ever understand what is happening to them?
This is not an easy story, but I truly liked the diverse cast, albeit 99% female (girl power) and their very different personalities and struggles, and as we follow the three friends we find that not everything is as it seems and that they’re not black or white. Also, the final explanation for it all is so good, but this is not your typical book as I’ve said before, it is YA but really gory and gritty, with a weird plot and setting.
I liked it but it was also maybe a bit too weird for me, and there were things I’d have like to have been dug deeper, still kudos for the originality of plot and the immersive and emotional writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Gun violence, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Starvation, Stitching, Near death experience

tshani's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Vomit, and Medical trauma

r__a's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Torture, and Murder

eveyezexe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I really liked this book, but sometime the flare up descriptions and the medical aspects of this book triggered my PTSD. But other than that, it's worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma