Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill

3 reviews

aparker89's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Bullying, Cancer, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Mental illness

chaoticblade5's review

It has very frustrating formatting, chapters are often a page long. There's A LOT of content warnings for this book, and a fetishization of Lovecraft without too much in terms of actual Lovecraftian horror. I looked up to see if there were more content warnings for this book, and it has stuff that I'm just not willing to deal with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child abuse, Stalking, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Physical abuse, Abortion, and Medical content

The book opens with

a 7 year-old collecting the suicide notes of his older sister, and the nonchalance tone about serious topics like this is kept with what I've currently read.

malloryfitz's review against another edition

dark mysterious

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abortion