Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall

4 reviews

henrygravesprince's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Religious bigotry, Bullying, and Child death

Minor: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

ilaxaria's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Blood, Murder, Car accident, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Vomit

Minor: Medical content, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Infidelity

arrowsartsandbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

This book is about a family of witches who live in a town in the Appalachian mountains. The main character is trying to solve a series of connected, unsolved crimes that have affected her and others. There is a rumor going around in the town that the Moth-Winged Man aka Mothman may be responsible or a participant in some of the crimes. If you like the trope of a teenager being the one to solve a crime instead of the police, then you'll like this book. You can tell the author has done extensive research into folk magic and witchcraft because the information is very accurate. There is a romantic subplot in this book and I wish there was more time spent on it. Even though I don't like slow-burn romance, it was very well written. The ending was good and wrapped the story up very nicely. This story was interesting, dark, spooky, and had just the right amount of familial love in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

    In small-town West Virginia, a family of witches looks for answers in a decades-old disappearance after one of their own disappears and returns without her memory. Then a friend is murdered. Are they all connected? How? The town is beginning to turn against them out of fear, how far will their neighbors go to get rid of them?
   I enjoyed this one, more than I thought I would. I loved the message of being a strong woman and owning your power. It was a great mix of emotions with just enough humor to ensure it wasn't too dark. 
   The mystery part was where it fell short parts of the mystery were predictable. I figured out that something was going on with two of the characters but not exactly who they were.
   Overall a great book that was enjoyable and a pretty quick read. 

Extra ratings: Fluff - NA  Heartfelt- 3.5/5   Helpful-NA    Horror-0.5/5   Inspiration- NA  Love aka Romance- 3/5  Mystery-4/5   Predictability- 3.5/5   Spice-0.5/5  Suspense- 2/5  Tear 1.5/5  Thrill- 2.5/5 Humor- 1/5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Murder, Car accident, Alcohol, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content and Child death

Minor: Alcoholism