Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

51 reviews

tomoonarmy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Violence, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Death, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Car accident, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Body horror, Eating disorder, and Cursing

lcyarnall1's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Cursing, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Incest, and Mental illness

anne_verhoef's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

After seeing everyone recommend this book for this time of year I had gotten quite curious because I had never heard of it before. So after a while I bought the book. It took me a long time to finish it (3 weeks) and it was quite a slow book but not that I wasn’t intrigued or appalled from reading it, I was so intrigued that I only wanted to continue reading it. It was anything but what I expected especially the ending and the scene at the hotel (I don’t wanna spoil everything). To sum it up I enjoyed it eventho I’ve read some totally opposite reviews

 The scene that got me most distraught was Henry killing himself in the hotel. That Charles gotten that drunk that he wanted to kill Henry, I understood. Maybe he wasn’t able to handle all the lies very well and living with the idea that they murdered an innocent man. But Henry.. no I didn’t see that coming. Was he planning this all along? That’s my question

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, and Self harm

clarathromycin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Donna Tartt’s writing was excellent throughout the book.  The characters were strong and you could feel the anticipation build.  However, I did feel as if she was taking extraordinary liberties with the use of racial and homophobic slurs in the dialogue of her bigoted characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Cursing, Incest, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Vomit, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Blood, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Classism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, and Animal death

emmah_1845's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Addiction, Grief, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Incest, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Self harm

lindsayerin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Self harm, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal death, Homophobia, Murder, Racial slurs, and Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Incest, Classism, Xenophobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism, and Blood

bookbabe0614's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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’m in complete shock. That was stunning and disturbing and beautiful and everything I expected from Donna Tartt 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, Body horror, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Self harm, Antisemitism, Grief, Addiction, Death, Gore, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

gracer0sew's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Suicide, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Physical abuse, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Rape, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Racism, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Incest, Drug use, Cursing, Addiction, Animal death, Alcohol, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

alite428's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Classism, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, Addiction, Antisemitism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

bugcollector's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

 
the premise of this dark academia manifesto is a clique of classics students influenced by greek lit and their charismatic teacher 'discovering' murder.
however, it was hard for me to find julian enchanting, even through the romanticizing eyes of richard,
and the connection to greek wasn't there beyond surface level.
i wish we got more than one class with him to understand why he influenced them this greatly, and what did the group come about when "meeting Dionysus".
the bit about what george orwell ("king of morals") had to say about Julian's character felt too in your face ("look, julian is actually immorall!) 

also what's the deal with the homophobia
yeah, they killed off bunny so most of the slurs stopped , but then Francis is falling for the straights and merrying a gal '-' 

i did love Henry's character, and how you could see him manipulate and master their daily decisions. but again what's his connection to Julian beyond that? 

There's also a bit about richard, mr nothing in his soul but obsessive, daydreaming about raping camilla which came out of nowhere. 

The book starts with Richard telling us 'the only story he will ever be able to tell.' i guess bexause of that i asummed there would be a reason he's telling it, or that  it would sum up in something he wrote. didn't expect the 2000s disney movie ending montage about what everyone's up to today (and i mean everyone, some characters I even forgot existed)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Homophobia, Drug use, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Incest, Murder, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Gore, Gun violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Medical trauma, Addiction, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Racism