Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

27 reviews

setauuta's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.0

If you're coming to this from the TV show, be aware that the tone is VERY different - much darker and grittier than the show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Body horror, Infertility, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Rape

insidious_toxins's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, Medical content, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Rape, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Confinement, and Stalking

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, and Car accident

_sweetdaisy_'s review

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Violence, Sexual violence, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Police brutality

phantomgecko's review

challenging 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

3.75

Opening the book with an autopsy is a bold choice. I'm a big crime book/show fan who thought no mere procedural crime book could bother me. But I legit almost stopped reading right there because I almost threw up. Not necessarily because it was especially gory but perhaps just because I was queasy that day anyway. After trying again the next day, I was able to power through.

Oh and the detailed ER scenes were defos not a favorite. There's a lot of blood and surgery in this one folks.

I liked it overall. I haven't put the next book in the series on my list yet, but I probably will eventually?

Additionally, I haven't watched Rizzoli & Isles, but I'm tempted now.

The mystery of it was perfectly satisfactory. A good amount of red herrings balanced with reasonable unraveling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Bullying, Medical content, Rape, Stalking, Torture, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Body horror, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Death, Gore, Cursing, Misogyny, Murder, and Police brutality

vrybs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Stalking, Blood, Death, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Rape

Moderate: Infertility, Misogyny, Body horror, and Kidnapping

qrb's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? N/A

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Stalking, Torture, Medical trauma, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Sexual violence, and Gore

bonez_x's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Rape

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Torture

siobhanward's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

 

I was given this book as a gift by someone I was dogsitting for, and at first I was really worried it was about to delve deep in to early-2000s transphobia, but luckily it did not and I wound up really having fun with the book. I've seen a few episodes of the show based on this series, but had no idea it was a book long before it was a show. This wound up being a fun read (and honestly will offer a good counter to my James Patterson habit haha). I'm really excited to read more from the series.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Gore, Death, Murder, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Gun violence

brok's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Blood

lillian_frost's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Suicide attempt, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Bullying, Medical content, Torture, Gore, Blood, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Murder, Death, and Kidnapping