Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

14 reviews

savbowmer's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Trafficking, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Violence, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Alcohol, Addiction, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Blood

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

Daisy Haites is the second book in the Magnolia Parks Universe. It follows Daisy Haites a second year medical student and her love interest Christian Hemmes who you would have met in the first book. It also follows Daisy’s brother Julian Haites who is a crime boss. 

Daisy is a badass who is easy to root for. She’s trying to balance her normal life of being a university medical student, with being the sister of one of the most powerful gang lords in England. Not to mention her off again, on again relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Romeo. Christian is struggling with his lingering feelings for Magnolia, and his new burgeoning feelings for Daisy. Even though he’s a gang lord as well doesn’t mean that he and Daisy are without conflict. Julian tries to do right by his sister, but will his crime lifestyle finally come between them? 

This is another emotional read from this series and I can’t wait to read the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Grief, Blood, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Murder, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death and Panic attacks/disorders

mackshill's review against another edition

dark emotional

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

5.0

didn’t know how i would like this one in comparison to MP but holy shit i liked it 100x better. i loved daisy and christian was so fucking hot and sexy. i loved the plot and the other characters and i really love how this one went along the same timeline as the first. if jessa hastings would write a book for every one of the characters i would demolish them. her books are so long (which i love) and so detailed and her writing is so incredible and i just adore it. i especially loved how we got daisy’s, christian’s, and julian’s perspective in the book because i feel like it really rounded it out. this has easily jumped to my favorites list. i literally can’t wait to read the next DH but i will force myself to read the next MP first

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Medical content, and Trafficking

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative lighthearted sad tense 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

5.0

This book had everything that I loved about MP1 and more. I fucking love the MPU because it is just pure escapism for me. I lose myself in the pages and for awhile I simply don't think about the things that are hurting me in my real life and cry over these fictional british messes. It's everything to me. The books aren't objectively perfect (no book is, not even most of my favorites), and you're entitled to your opinion, but they make ME happy.

With that portion out of the way - this book took me a little longer to read because 1. it's a big boi and 2. I just started a new job and I'm tired all the time. However, I loved my time with Daisy. I thought the three unique perspectives (Daisy, Christian & Julian) were intriguing and often heartbreaking as well as soooo funny. I loved getting to know the characters in Daisy's world better, as well as getting to know Daisy herself. There is so much about her to love, and like the other characters - a lot about her to hate, but that's what I love even more about her. She's just a person living in extraordinary circumstances, and really, that's what all of these characters are. They are so messy and half the time they're doing things you can't stand, but you still want them to win.

I am both excited and afraid to read MP: The Long Way Home. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Homophobia, and Drug use

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault, War, Animal cruelty, and Slavery