Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

9 reviews

jackalexdale's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

lucipaca's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Miscarriage

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Domestic abuse, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Medical content

Minor: Cursing, Medical trauma, Self harm, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, and Abortion

erin_forgie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

I loved this book so much. 
I only really felt the bliss after

Martha’s diagnosis

 
It really delves into the sorrow straight away, so be prepared to feel a bit emotional. 
It had all the correct ingredients for a 5 star, just something was missing and I’m not quite sure why. I think maybe it was the writing style, I just sometimes found it confusing when someone was speaking as the writer would add extra details about what they had said, outside of the speech marks - and as someone who adores Sally Rooney, its not the lack of speech marks, its just the lack of fully feeling the conversation. 
*after a couple of months*
This book is a 5 star, I think about it constantly and I really appreciate what it has done 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Self harm, Pregnancy, and Abortion

Minor: Death of parent

eeviee's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This is the kind of book you read to remind you of how much you love reading. The kind that you revisit from time to time and still feel gutted by. That one book you read at different stages of your life and find yourself identifying with another character you were least likely to feel any affinity with. It is a character study of a deeply flawed woman in an equally flawed relationship, and how she comes to mend herself in more ways than one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Grief, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Self harm, Abortion, Death, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

bookishdiya's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

larawade's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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? Yes

4.75

This book shocked me. I thought it was going to be droll middle-aged fiction, but it had me weeping by the end. I’m glad I took the recommendation from the shopkeeper. Wonderful story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sofiefarmer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

5.0

Beautiful, haunting, real. This is an incredible story of the problems with misdiagnosis.

Every single character in this book is perfectly written. They all feel so real and flawed and complex. I am obsessed with the way these characters were depicted, and I am blown away by the intentionality in every interaction and story told.

The writing is so beautiful. It is so lyrical and quotable. Not a single word is wasted. I would read anything Meg Mason writes.

I loved how Martha's condition is never specified. It allows the reader to focus on mental health as a whole and the consequences of misdiagnosis rather than generalizing a specific population that struggles with a certain condition.

Martha and Patrick have such an interesting relationship. It was so fascinating to read.

This is a book I will be thinking about for the rest of my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction and Suicide attempt

nashvillebookgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

I knew this book will make me feel things and... it did. 

TW: metal health and illness, suicidal ideations, alcoholism. 

Martha is struggling. She knows something is wrong with her, a panel of doctors after doctors, pills after pills brings her nowhere. She lives her life, things happen to her and around her but the thoughts don’t ease up. A concept too many of us are sadly familiar with.

By the time that one doctor finally provides the help she found herself at the steps of her burned down life...

This book is described as Sally Rooney’s style meets Eleanor is Completely Fine, two things that make my heart happy and I think this is a wonderful description 🥺

I’m all up in my feels right now hahah 

Right now I would love to read this book from Patrick’s perspective. I think that would be incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Medical trauma