Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

22 reviews

m_a_j's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Terminal illness, Grief, and Cancer

Minor: Blood, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

homosexualstudying's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

4.75

A beautiful writing style. a riveting and gripping concept. challenging and reflecting to read. 
almost stopped reading because it got a bit too dark for myself, but i’m so glad i continued. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content, Trafficking, and Cancer

maybe_nell's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I have so many questions. Read in one sitting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Cancer

sydneylount's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cancer, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Infertility, and Kidnapping

paperkindle's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Suicide, Abandonment, Medical content, and Confinement

Moderate: Dementia, Kidnapping, and Cancer

Minor: Violence

kates_cupcakes's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

Bleak and dense, emotional at the ending and almost rips your heart out. I wanted there to be to read. You start to question at the end how she knows all the information she does. It was hard to get through this book simply because it’s dense with a lot of world building and not a lot of dialogue. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Medical content, Confinement, Suicide, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Cancer, and Injury/Injury detail

katharinaamaliae's review

dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

I hated the way this book made me feel. I'm used to reading sad books with sad endings, but something about this just really hit me and I don't know why. I think it dealed with some very interesting themes like what makes us human or the definition of freedom, but in a smaller amount than I expected? I hated the world building. In the beginning I really liked how you knew nothing at all about why the women were in the cage, but that was mostly because I expected an explanation the entire time.

I was just really disappointed when there was none, because there was so much potential for a great explanation that was just wasted. For me the lack of an explanation didn't even have a effect on me that made the book more interesting, it just seemed like a lack of world building

I think the narrator was a really interesting and well written character though. Most of the other women seemed kind of flat to me on the other hand, which I thought was sad because going into this book I expected strong female characters.
Overall this was a good book, but it just didn't stand out to me and it's probably not something I will think about for a long time.

I am the sterile offspring of a race about wich I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct.
Perhaps, somewhere humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence.
There is nothing we can do about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Dementia, Medical content, and Murder

juli161's review

dark mysterious 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, and Murder

ta_ma_ra_gj's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Cancer and Medical content

nirellis's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Delightfully existentialistic. 
Unlike anything I have ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content and Terminal illness