Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Die stumme Patientin by Alex Michaelides

204 reviews

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual content, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jessedgartighe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Car accident, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Child abuse, and Gun violence

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.75

The problem with boasting about a book's Shocking Twist from the get-go is that you put your reader on guard for it, and it distracts from the picking up clues organically. This is especially annoying when the writing is only mediocre, so picking up upon the clues is not as logical and satisfying as it is a better-written work. (AND if you don't pick up on what the author is putting down because you haven't been primed to, the book's structure doesn't make a lot of sense - see my friend's DNF review stating how he didn't understand why the psychologist was the man focus given the title and the blurb, and how that made him put it down).

Also, I have a psychology degree and a personal hatred of Freud and heavily Freudian-psychology. This would probably not bother most people (Farber fits with the pop culture ideas of a psychologist) but it bothers me. His internal monologues are annoying. 

Alicia and her art, and how she relates her art to her traumas, are the best things about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Fatphobia, Child abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

-Specifically a graphic eye injury -Takes place in a psychiatric ward for violent women

sdaley08's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Violence, Medical content, Child abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

latashman's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• 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

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Suicide attempt, and Gun violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism

emcl7weenie's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I read this in two days and am now writing this review at 12:53am because I needed to finish it. Fast read. Short chapters, simple, straight forward writing. Great characters showing both their flaws and strengths. Explores a lot of emotion, topics of nature vs nurture, and had me in a hold with how information was presented. Not an outright spoiler - Only flaw to me were some character interactions that didn't really seem to have any other point besides making the reader slightly suspicious. Felt unnecessary. But overall enjoyed it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Murder, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Infidelity

katherinek's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Blood, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

laurenlee2158's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Stalking, Self harm, Mental illness, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, and Infidelity

Minor: Car accident

autumngrace08's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.5

Bad. It had a twist that was out of nowhere and made the entire plot of the book was thrown off and it made the pacing and timeline of the book confusing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Murder, Self harm, Mental illness, and Medical content

xyz_johanna's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Car accident, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide