Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Friend Scheme by Cale Dietrich

5 reviews

venetiana's review

emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Overall, this book sadly really didn't do it for me. Without spoiling stuff, some emotional reactions were overwritten, the background felt too violent for me, and I unfortunately guessed too many things before they happened.
Also, I really didn't appreciate how some heavy and violent stuff was only dealt with and "solved" in passing, like the topic wasn't serious.
Still, some good/cute things inbetween.

A smaller but real bummer: there did not need to be any H*rry P*tter mentions in this book (why do we need to reference a transphobe's work??!!), and there were several. No thank youuu.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Blood, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Stalking, Transphobia, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Vomit, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

fanboyriot's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

Read for:
♡ Idiots in Love
♡ Crime Family
♡ Only One Bed
♡ Forbidden Romance
♡ Angst with a Happy Ending


I enjoyed this book.  It was a simple and cute story with forbidden romance vibes.  The main characters were cute together.

However, it did kinda feel like it was missing something.  There was little backstories and I think parts just kinda felt bland; not to mention the dialogue felt a bit forced at times.

It's a good book to binge read.  The angst is light and there were way more wholesome vibes than I was expecting.  And so many music and movie mentions, which I always appreciate.

Spice: 🌶
(First Person POV)

Rep: Gay MC, Gay LI

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Homophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, and War

emmasbelovedbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gun violence, War, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death of parent, Medical content, Genocide, Kidnapping, Outing, Murder, Torture, Vomit, Bullying, Car accident, and Violence

greatu's review

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, and Death of parent

alouette's review

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

a nice and fun read, don't try and take this one seriously- even if the subject matter seems serious, the writing style does not fit with it, and even if the author should've taken that into consideration while writing, i still don't mind. the beginning was a bit stilted (especially the dialogue) but i think the plot was good (if predictable) and very fast-paced (in a nice way), and i liked matt's inner monologue. i liked the ending before the epilogue a lot as well! sometimes there comes a time where instead of trying to fit in and fix the world around you, you accept that you belong somewhere else entirely, and i love how jason helped matt realize that. there definitely should have been more characters of colour, though, especially considering this book is set in the present day.

overall, this wasn't some life-changing adventure of a book, just an easy read that i personally enjoyed!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Homophobia, Murder, and Death

Minor: Medical content and Car accident