Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

9 reviews

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Good read! Finished it in a day. My one complaint would be that I enjoyed the parts that focused on the surgery or mystery aspects far more than the romance. It was like reading a story with multiple POVs and groaning with frustration whenever I was thrust back into the annoying character's brain. I even noticed myself tuning the narrator out at times when it got too boring and thinking "there's no way I'm going back to listen to all of that again, I'll just keep going" 
I liked the ending, though. I would certainly listen to the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Drug use, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Death, Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Moderate: Incest, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Child death, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Minor: Mental illness, Infertility, and Vomit

gracescanlon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Murder, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Classism, Death, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Vomit, Drug use, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol

wytherwytch's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Just brilliant. Dark. Gothic. Romantic. Can't wait for part 2! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Violence, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Grief, Death, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Vomit, Toxic relationship, and Torture

laffi's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

I enjoyed the story so much that I wish the book was longer and not as fast paced as it is. While I think the ending might be controversial, I'm happy to say I liked it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Excrement, Miscarriage, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Kidnapping, and Vomit

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

a wonderful little love story of castles and cadavers set in 18th century edinburgh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gore, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Blood, Violence, Trafficking, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma

cover2covertx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Medical trauma, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Animal death, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

yomireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

A quick and fun read that blends science in magic with YA prose. Each character feels well formed, though theres little emphasis on emotional growth or turmoil in spite of the heavy topics of death and abandonment being at the forefront. There are a lot of under explored concepts that could have been expounded into very compelling books on their own, which gave the pacing a bit of a chaotic feel, so when plot twists come it feels somewhat rushed.

And it was a big letdown that the climax ignored its promised buildup to the test only for her not to go.

I ate this book up, and really enjoyed the prose style in spite of these short comings though.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Child death, and Abandonment

queenie_ofthe_void's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.25

This book is probably more than a 3.25 compared to previous reads, but I'm trying to re-calibrate my ratings (they've been getting increasingly higher). 

This book was... fine. Very predictable and a bit boring. All of the interactions I wanted to see were skipped most of the time, yet it still felt unnecessarily long. It's frustrating when the MC female protagonist just seems to consistently make obviously wrong choices. I did, however, try to keep reminding myself that she was only 16. But my biggest issue with the story was

The ending. She could have easily asked for two vials if she promised to be apart of the Doctor's life while still saving Jack. Hell there was probably enough in the one vial for Hazel and Jack to split it! Titanic all over again. And then him not even coming to find her. Just being like 'meet me in America. Honestly smdh.

I'm being harsh. I'm writing this after binging The Atlas Six, which is all I can think about. I took some time before writing this summary because the ending emotionally wrecked me, but now my opinion has still been warped. I'm not sure if I'll ever think if this book again, much like other romances I've read (outside of Naomi Novik, the queen of slow burn).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Classism, Gaslighting, Sexism, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

mysterymom40's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Sexism, Classism, Pregnancy, and Animal death