Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

13 reviews

becca_w_'s review

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug use, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Violence

bookish_bae's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical content, and Alcoholism

happilyeveralli's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective medium-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? Yes

3.75

Sooooo full of nostalgia!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Cancer

Moderate: Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death, and Blood

marieeveparentroy's review against another edition

challenging emotional lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Minor: Blood, Medical trauma, Drug use, Violence, and Medical content

rylin_marie's review

emotional funny relaxing tense medium-paced

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

3.0

omg. i’m in love with jer. my team jeremiah heart can’t take the ending. first off, susannah! i love her. i’m soooo sad that she’s sick again. don’t get me wrong, i love con, but i feel like he’s kinda emo. jer is a golden retriever and i love him sm. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Death

corporealmystic's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Terminal illness, Body shaming, and Death of parent

vera_cologne's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.25

I don’t get why this is so hyped. Did not like the narrator / main character, found the plot thoroughly lacking and there were some things that really bothered me about quack medicine and consent. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer and Medical content

katiea714's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Blood

Minor: Classism, Vomit, Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Violence

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I loved Jenny Han’s other series (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before) and when I saw that this has become a series on Amazon Prime – I was even more intrigued to read it. Hopefully the TV series is better than the book because this was questionable. 

This book follows fifteen-year-old Isabel who is known as Belly. She a spend every summer at her family friend’s beach house with her mum and brother and her mum’s best friend. There’s a swimming pool, the private stretch of sandy beach and the two boys that she has known forever. There is Conrad who she’s been in love with forever but he’s unavailable and been moody all summer and then there is Jeremiah who’s the only one who seem to pay her attention and who is her best friend. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been along. This book is a young adult contemporary romance. 

I loved Jenny’s writing style in this book and how went an inside joke or a memory surfaces – she writes about what that inside joke was or what summer that related to in the next chapter. I think the storyline was okay . . . I was just expecting more, and it just never happen – maybe I was reading this late considering it originally came out in 2009 and I read this for the first time 13 years later but I just didn’t vibe with it. Belly was the first main character to annoy the hell out of me and she just seems so selfish, and I’ve put that to how young she is but it was just one of those things. I would have loved to see more of Conrad and Jeremiah and would have loved a couple of chapters from their point of view because you didn’t know Jeremiah liked Belly until he told her, and Conrad didn’t seem interested in Belly until the end. So, I would have loved to see a couple of chapters of them pining of her and then maybe that would have made it a bit better. 

I recommend this to anyone who is just starting out reading young adult romance or who wants to read a summer novel. Let’s hope the next one in the series is better than this one. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, and Cancer

izypup's review

lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, and Toxic relationship