Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

In Flammen by Megha Majumdar

10 reviews

imaginaryisobel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Really quick read and some really interesting topics discussed but I really didn't connect to any of the characters and a lot of it fell flat for me. Didn't not enjoy just felt very meh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Transphobia, and Death

Minor: Animal death and Confinement

laurenw's review against another edition

reflective sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Misogyny, and Excrement

jennikreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, and Medical content

Moderate: Islamophobia and Transphobia

Minor: Rape

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Police brutality, Rape, and Transphobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Colorism, hanging, capital punishment, incarceration

emsavors's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

I want to be mad about the ending, but I also feel like I can’t be mad about the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Islamophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Police brutality, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

leah_alexandra's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This small book was a real gut-punch. The only thing that's keeping it from a full 5 stars is that the brevity plus multiple perspectives meant that some pieces of characterization were slightly underdone, but not by much! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Islamophobia, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Violence

casey_sunshine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Rape, Murder, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia and Medical content

deezy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Murder, Police brutality, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

megsthomas's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Medical content

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a tough read (and I can't really say I "enjoyed" it in the traditional sense) but it was timely and well-written. Each character’s perspective feels unique and alive, and their actions are believable even when they're terrible. I felt like the demonstration of a person being seduced into doing increasingly awful things on behalf of a right-wing political party was realistic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child death, Excrement, Fatphobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Suicide

There is a description of a terrorist attack on a train.

A character is executed by hanging.