Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

9 reviews

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Chronic illness

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Violence, Classism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Ableism, Alcohol, Child death, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Death, Infertility, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Lesbophobia

leila_reads_too_much's review

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Medical content

kelisabeth's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

sallytiffany's review

challenging funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

It was a nice short story and I loved the way that fairy tales played a big role. The characters were dynamic and wonderful. I just didn’t love the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

melodicolive's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma and Medical content

emilypete17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Chronic illness

Moderate: Sexual violence, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, Abortion, and Cursing

Brief allusions to sexual assaults(off page). Chronically/terminally ill main character.

m_rain's review

adventurous reflective 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

3.0

Sapphic sleeping beauty with a modern retelling. I loved the main character, who is coming to terms with the end of her life due to medical condition she was born with. It was very cool to see the mirroring between her story and the sleeping beauty tale. 

I read that the author was inspired by Into the Spider-Verse for the book. It definitely fits! I think it could have been a bit more developed though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical trauma

Minor: Rape

carodonahue's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Sexism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death, Lesbophobia, and Violence