Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Assembly by Natasha Brown

15 reviews

jennanaps's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Cancer, Medical content, Racism, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Hate crime, Classism, Colonisation, and Medical content

fatfrog's review

dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Slavery and Infidelity

schorlett's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Cancer, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Slavery, Alcohol, and Classism

lady_bountiful's review

challenging slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Classism, Medical content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Sexism

anneklein's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

holy shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Terminal illness, Classism, Misogyny, Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Xenophobia

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Medical content, Xenophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Hate crime

abrownb15's review

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

Powerful whirlwind of colonialism and modern day struggles with diversity. Especially interesting in relating to the protagonist’s boyfriend and his family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Cancer

notthatcosta's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is like a 100-page fever dream. There is so much said in so little time, but the pacing and the  structure ties it all together somehow. I appreciated how little exposition there is, and yet I was able to discern the fundamentals of what was happening, despite the non-linear, splintering structure. 

Even as plot lines and moments fade in and out within the space of a few pages, I remained grounded in the motions - I felt tension, fear, frustration and even peace at points. I was also confused a lot, don't get me wrong.

While part of me would have liked more than the snapshot we received of this story, I was more impressed at the economy and the confidence in its delivery than I was disappointed in its length. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Slavery, Death, Colonisation, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Racism

sorcha's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Slavery, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Medical content, and Death

kaetheluise_nckl's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Misogyny

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Death, Slavery, Medical content, and Sexual harassment