Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

89 reviews

marla_a's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Miscarriage, Child death, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Grief, Death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying

rchains's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Child death, and Misogyny

lsmith36's review against another edition

challenging funny sad fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Pregnancy

nialiversuch's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Abortion

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Alcohol

phoevincent's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use

galexy_brain's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

I almost stopped reading this book after getting quite far into the first half, waiting for something to happen. It felt too on-the-nose and didn't have much more to add to the conversation around social media (although Lockwood did write everyone's thoughts out beautifully). After finding a review that promised a change of pace in the second half, I decided to press on.

What I found was a beautifully written, emotional story of a family making the best out of a terrible situation. It was inspiring seeing the family come together to support the sister and baby after a scary diagnosis. The book masterfully demonstrates what it means to love, to care. I found that the book touched on the title's theme quite a bit more briefly than expected, and quickly shifted to the main character's life being less involved with social media, but it felt natural.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Grief, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Abortion

bluejayreads's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.0

Weird, sad, and ultimately unsatisfying. I initially really loved the bizarre, disjointed style, the wacky observations, the over-the-top and yet also completely spot-on depiction of internet culture. The text from the unnamed protagonist's mother was a turning point, but not in the way I expected. It was less "sudden tragedy causes protagonist to reevaluate her time online" and more "tragic news causes protagonist to switch from being consumed by internet to consumed by other situation." It wasn't bad, necessarily, but it was emotionally intense and less an intentional reevaluation (which is what I wanted to see) than the protagonist spending less time online due to circumstances outside her control and becoming less internet popular because of it. The first half was great, I just wanted the second half to be something else entirely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity and Ableism

froggybooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

As other reviews said the second half was better and more moving.

Idk I kinda get what was trying to be said but I thought it was poorly executed and pretentious. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion

sketchydelusion's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Ableism, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Grief

dizzyizzy's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy