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The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

150 reviews

rinku's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Rape, Animal death, and Pregnancy

ashleysills's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

This book did keep me up until 3 a.m. finishing it, so it was clearly entertaining. I really liked the unique premise, the interesting magic, the huge green flag that is Jaren, and the fantastic side characters Tipp and Naari, but I don't think this one will end up being a favorite.

I buddy read this with a friend and we both agreed that the part that annoyed us the most was the selective inner dialogue that made the ending/plot twist pretty unsatisfying. The book is written in third-person omniscient, so we have a window into Kiva's mind and her thoughts. However, I felt blindsided by the ending because there was little to no foreshadowing and Kiva's inner thoughts were conveniently silent on that front, possibly to make the ending more dramatic. Instead it felt more like not even the author knew where the story was going until the end. The ending was still good, but I like my plot twists to leave me wondering how I didn't put the pieces together sooner.

Would I still recommend this book? Yes. If you love YA fantasy that isn't too heavy on world building, has female characters who are still growing into themselves and their inner strength, and is entertaining, then I think you'll love it.

P.S. I'm reviewing these after reading the whole series and book three was my personal favorite.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Self harm and Sexual harassment

Spice: brief kiss

mirthesportel's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Rape

asims723's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Self harm

mrobin14's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

The writing at times is very immature. Often thoughts would be scattered paragraphs away from where it started, or events would become repetitively told to the reader within the same chapters. Some events that transpired don’t make sense to have been included, it feels like they were cheap shots at making a “diverse” and “deep” cast. Pages were clearly taken from Lemony Snicketts writing in silly chapter set ups, but it just makes it feel like a poorly written YA novel. Feel as though the story idea is good, but needed a more stern publisher to steer it in the right direction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Blood, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Moderate: Rape, Police brutality, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Self harm, and Suicide

charthegoose's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

WOW I HAVE NO WORDS! I honestly have no idea what to say THAT ENDING

THE REBEL QUEEN IS KIVA’S MUM!!! SHES A HEALER AND SHES GOING FOR THE CROWN MY DUDES! Jaren has no idea what he’s in for damn. Also Tip is alive thank god 🙏 Naari is one of my favourite characters she better survive the next two books

I’m a student nurse and had a great time reading Kiva’s perspective of caring for her patients

I did call the poison quite early though 😂

this book is a really great read and I highly recommend, can’t wait to read the second book! Make sure to check trigger warnings if that’s something you look at before reading - I’ve listed them as best I can  :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Medical content, Slavery, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Grief, and Excrement

genevieveivy's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Violence

Minor: Rape

gcjay1994's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

This one snuck up on me - in the end I realized what a good time I had. A lot darker than anticipated in some spots. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Self harm, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Police brutality, and Toxic relationship

akevaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, and Confinement

isabelle_sweaterweather's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

Lynette Noni, the author you are! This book is really impressive and the twists at the end were shocking! I'm so excited to read Jaren's chapter! This book was scary, gritty and shocking. Definitely recommending this book to everyone I know!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Minor: Self harm and Drug abuse