Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

13 reviews

destinynichole11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Drug use, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death, Medical trauma, and Medical content

mags88's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Drug use

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use and Violence

gabriella_'s review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

1.75

I don’t know what this author’s obsession is with male saviors but it’s in all her books somehow. Every character reads like they have the same voice: the author’s voice. It’s like Colleen is talking to herself in the mirror for the majority of the book. Characters trauma-dump for exposition instead of letting the story or dialogues progress organically. It’s got all the nuance of a tweet and the depth of a kiddie pool. 

Naming background characters and identifying their race won’t give you diversity points, especially not when you just use them as plot devices to fuel the protagonist thinking he’s a “good person” and “decent human” solely for being around POC. Reducing them to just characters who make your white cast look better isn’t diversity, it’s optics

Having a character with alcohol-related PTSD say she wants to “order alcohol specifically to walk away from it” out of a sense of control, and to have an alcoholic character respect that decision is tone-deaf. It accessorizes addiction and trauma, making mental illness an aesthetic that is pick-me at best and inherently exploitative at worst.  

The fact that this book is her “least problematic” and the male lead is just cardboard but

he kisses her without consent when he first meets her

isn’t really a good look. This isn’t a story about grief, this is a love story with a struggle for child custody, the grief is just a decorative ornament for an uninspired “forbidden romance”, skip this read lmao

There were only two quotes that felt like it had heart in the entire book and one is an OOC tiktok sound that feels jarring in context considering how insignificant the mourning felt throughout the book until it was narratively relevant to talk about it. 

And despite how problematic it is - the race baiting, male savior complex, turning addiction into an aesthetic - its worst crime is it’s just plain boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, Body horror, Murder, Violence, Death, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

__helena__'s review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Grief, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, Medical content, Misogyny, and Sexism

brynhayes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Medical content, Car accident, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

libraryofbananas's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Car accident, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

taylorsevalia's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Grief, and Cursing

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Medical content, Kidnapping, Blood, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, and Drug use

jadeilona_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Death of parent, Medical content, and Murder

felixelagabiere's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Sexual content