Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

59 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

theasi's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Body horror, Death, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol

lisa07xie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious 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? No

4.5

I really liked it the beginning was not so interesting for me but then it got me hooked I couldnt stop I needed to know what would happen next and there were so many wow moments omg

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Child death, Death, Alcohol, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Death, Medical trauma, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Classism, Child death, Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

winglesswarrior's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Body horror, Murder, Death, Blood, Gore, and Kidnapping

emmy_likes_2_read's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Blood, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Excrement, Gore, and Murder

kassidyreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Gore

Moderate: Death, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jg34's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

This was a bit gruesome but I think I liked it anyway. I love the fight Hazel has to become a surgeon. Jack, ignoring his profession, is just a sweet lil baby. It did go a bit buckwild at the end but again, I think I liked it. Excited to see what the second book has in store!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Sexism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Includes grave robbing and desecrating bodies

lilou0922's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Was it what I expected? Oh absolutely not. Did I expect the plot twist to be 

LITERAL IMMORTALITY?? FROM THE DOCTOR SURGEON MAN, THE NICE ONE TOO?? NO I WAS NOT

but in my defense I saw the second one first, thought it was pretty, found out it was a sequel and read it without looking up what it was about so....... I mean I liked it tho!

Also, his name being Jack, can we talk about how him being blamed for murders and hung in the mid 19th c. is like..... def about Jack the Ripper? Is this book insinuating that Jack the Ripper was a falsely accused corpse man and that actually it was an immortal surgeon doing the killing?? Wild

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Classism and Kidnapping

Minor: War and Child death

doodeedoda's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual assault, Ableism, and Bullying