Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

9 reviews

ginadapooh's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Classism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Alcoholism

laynemandros's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Blood, Vomit, Sexism, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death of parent, Classism, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, and Death

emily_madcharo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Violence

badmom's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Blood, and Death

amanda_fagan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is definitely not for someone squeamish, as it goes into lots of detail about a few less-than-pleasing topics. Once you can get past that, "Salvage the Bones" was an ok read, although the changing pace made it difficult to sit down and read sometimes. This was a good book, but definitely not one of my favorites.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

n_asyikin_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

Written with incredible vividness, Ward has a truly a unique narrator in Esch. The effortlessness in expressions celebrates the malleability of language. I found myself gasping in awe at some passages. The cost of survival-needs induced by poverty through the loss of affection and hardening of the heart was explored, & depicted through parent-child & familial bonds - also, through the experience of first love. Although the lyricism did at times suspended the flow of the story (i.e. plot), it wasn't highly disruptive & the solid ending more than made-up for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Abortion

sarrasegway's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death

lexa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

When I first picked this book up I didn’t know much about it. I thought it would be about a family and how they survived Hurricane Katrina, however it is so much more than that. In fact, the storm doesn’t arrive until the final couple chapters. This story was hard and raw, but also beautiful and deep. I almost put this book down after the first chapter; it just didn’t grip me right away. But I am so glad I didn’t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

eggbeater's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.25

This writing is incredibly evocative. It is a hard book to read because of the subject matter, but the characters are just so vivid and heart wrenching that I loved it even when I didn't like it. Warning, it is very disturbing if you are an animal lover, but it should be disturbing if you are a person lover too, and maybe that is the point. I was very attached to these characters and invested in their outcomes despite loathing what some of them were doing. The book made me consider things from a different perspective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, and Child abuse