Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Fortune Favours the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

8 reviews

snips17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Violence, Physical abuse, and Death

Minor: Biphobia, Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical content

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

An excellent first mystery in the series.  I especially enjoyed the characters and look forward to reading the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Stalking, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Classism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Addiction, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Sexism, and War

Minor: Pregnancy, Infidelity, Drug use, and Cancer

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, Cancer, Violence, Suicide, Sexism, Medical content, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Outing

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I would describe this book as fine. It never wowed me, but it never disappointed me either. If you like mystery books, strong female leads, plucky characters, and LGBTQ+ and disabilities rep, give this one a try!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Lesbophobia, Blood, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent

lilly_anne's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Grief, and Homophobia

Minor: Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, and Outing

mar's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

a fun murder mystery with some effortlessly witty writing, really easy to read. also, as sb with chronic pain, it was really cool seeing a disabled woman as the sherlock holmes of the story :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Gun violence, Antisemitism, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, and Child abuse

prettycloud's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is so fun. It's noir, but make it gay. It's atmospheric—there's beautiful clothing, delicious food, and the pervasive edge of danger. Like many books of the genre, the protagonist spends a lot of it in a washing machine, getting tossed about by forces she can't understand and run around in circles looking for answers. And yet the protag gets so much agency within her constraints. She is competent, she is creative, and she's a delight to be around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Homophobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Biphobia, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Violence, Gun violence, and Suicide

This is a noir book, so it fulfills the genre conventions of people getting beat up and shot at regularly (including getting murdered that way). Many of the characters are LGBT+, and they experience period-appropriate homophobic violence and threats to their livelihood. The narrator ends up in a hospital at one point, but no harm to her body or agency takes place there. The narrator's mentor has multiple sclerosis but works in spite of it.

novi's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.5

How should I describe this book. This is in cozy mystery about a private investigator, Lillian Pentecost, and her assistant, set in New York 1945. We are reading from the assistant's point of view, Willowjean. The vibe of the book is very much like the cover, I don't know why but I always imagine it's always at night there lol. As someone that is used to reading english countryside mystery, this vibe is not really my favorite because it's dark and very old yeehaw "american" lol sorryyy but that's really not my cup of tea (edit: apparently it's called noir, and a bit of pulp fiction vibe). BUT I fell in love with the story and the message. The beginning of the story didn't really interest me, probably because I felt a little meh about Willowjean. But the story progresses quite steadily, it wasn't suspenseful or fast, but it's going. That's one of the reasons it feels cozy.

My favorite part of the book is the ending. The very end. I really didn't see it coming and it was great. What I really love about this book is that beside a mystery book, it is also a book about women killing terrible men. I got the recommendation from A Sunny Book Nook's video, titled "favorite niche book tropes & subgenres" and this book is exactly as she described. I really love this quote that Ms. Pentecost said about severing the chain of painful events that a lot of women experiences so that no one need to suffer from them. I can't put the quote here because it'll spoil the story but I just love that message and I want to do that too for all the everyone in the world, especially women.

There's one thing that frustrates me about this book though. The writing style is often not straight-forward. There's always at least one idiom in every page. For example:

"I don't know what flickered in and out of her head while she was coming up with a response, but I would have given a sawbuck to catch the matinee." (I still don't know what it means. I won't google it.)

"Being a pale redhead, I'm a master blusher. But the doc gave me a run for my money." (I often heard about "run for my money" so fine, I'd googled it. I finally understood the whole this after searching through 4 (four) dictionary websites.)

"The police are going to start flinging open closets," I said. "If you have any skeletons, they're sure to come tumbling out." (This is not about real closets and skeletons. Did people really talk like this in those days?)

If it's not obvious already, english is not my first languange. I would say I've read quite a lot of english books but I have never found one that has as many idioms as this book. Is there a word for this style? Or was that just the old american style?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse and Lesbophobia