Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

World Without End by Ken Follett

3 reviews

heartfelthullabaloo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

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

4.0

It was pretty on par with the way the first one played out. The author really knows how to get the reader to feel things. The church was still frustrating and corrupt. Caris and Merthin were great characters. The villain was slightly less loathsome than William and there was less rape so that was good. Still lots of mentions of breasts, it would make a good drinking game, take a shot every time breasts are mentioned 😜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Medical content, Infidelity, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Torture, War, Rape, Murder, and Medical trauma

lillythebluepaladin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

This book took me SO LONG to finish, but it was SO WORTH IT!

I chose to give it 4 stars, because even though I loved the plot, characters and world building, the many POV’s we got were a bit hard to get through sometimes.

I either loved the characters, or wanted to rip their throats out, in a great way of course, and Follet has a wonderful and sometimes intense (and even borderline  disgusting sometimes, ‘cus the plague was not that fun and cute) writing, and I usually don’t find architecture THAT interesting, but Ken made it really insightful and exciting to read about.

This and The Pillars Of The Earth are absolutely worth reading if you want to read a story with the drama and intensity of GOT, without the dragons…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Trafficking, and War

beckyo's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child abuse