Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Prison Healer - Die Schattenheilerin by Lynette Noni

79 reviews

cepbreed's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This book disappointed me in the beginning, I’d say up until 60% in I wasn’t hooked. It’s all so cliche, the most classic YA tropes converging in one novel. You’d think that’d at least make it entertaining from the get go but it just felt so overly familiar there was no intrigue left to get me invested. I will say that once the action picked up I couldn’t stop reading (but I was also on a plane so it’s not like I had many other options). Naari is the best character in my opinion, what a badass. Kiva and Jaren I could honestly care less about. Speaking of Jaren, what kind of name is that in a fantasy setting (yes I know it gets explained but still). Only one character actually annoyed me rather than being subjected to indifference: Tipp. I HATE written stutters with such a passion and I don’t know why. 

The myriad of plot twists weren’t always the most creative

(I mean Jaren as the prince was obvious early on)

but the last twist was lacking in the opposite sense. The earlier twists were predictable thanks to tenants of the genre, but the last one lost me. I mean there was hardly any build up. Of course Kiva

has to be a “chosen one” of some sort but I prefer her as a healer only, but that may change if I read the second book.

Recently I’ve had such an issue with never continuing series, there are just too many books I want to read. To my credit I started this thinking it was a standalone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Sexual violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Sexism, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

that_awkwardpart's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I haven't read anything similar before. And I'm in awe. Everything came through beautifully in the end. I can wait to read the next book. 

This book is about a  young girl, that has been in prison for the last 10 years. She is the prison healer, but keeps mostly to herself and stays out of trouble. 

A must read. In my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Murder, Slavery, Self harm, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Torture, Blood, Sexual assault, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Murder, Medical content, Police brutality, Self harm, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, War, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Rape, and Sexual assault

ashlyncherie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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? No

4.75

THAT ENDING! Holy cow. I haven’t had a plot twist do me like that in a while. I freaking loved this!! It had everything I could have wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Torture, Vomit, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Medical content, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Minor: Grief, Rape, Addiction, Self harm, Drug abuse, and Sexual harassment

yananhai's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.25

i can not believe she was 𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 me throughout the entire book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Addiction, Blood, Self harm, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

jordmccarthy's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Violence

lizrushby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Confinement, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Murder, Sexual violence, Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Self harm, and Torture

rinku's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Rape, Animal death, and Pregnancy

mirthesportel's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Rape

the_jesus_fandom's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

I enjoyed this book and I especially loved Tipp (some of his scenes almost made me cry). All of the side characters were lovable, though, in their own ways. The book felt slow at times, but that's probably because my attention span has been bad. The descriptions were super good and especially the water trial was very stressful to read.

There was a bit of discrepancy in Kiva saying she helped everyone cause that was her job, regardless of what they did, but then she refuses to help a guard and actively makes his sickness worse.

So why exactly are you helping a person who killed his children but not a guard who sexually harasses people? Is it cause you didnt see the man kill his children but you did see the guard sexually harass people? Bit of a double standard.

My only major grievances: eyes don't have to have stone colours. Just say her eyes are yellow (amber).

And yeah, the plot twist. Not about Jaren, the one about Kiva. On the one hand it explains why her family was so sure of being able to rescue her, but on the other hand we saw her alone with Tilda various times. Why did she not call her "mother" then? I get that maybe she was still super on alert, but apparantly things were safe enough for her to tell the story of how her parents met. It also makes it a bit hypocritical that she was mad at Jaren for hiding his identity from her. And lastly, it does make the ending of this series pretty predictable. Jaren and Kiva will get together, thus uniting both sides, but not before Kiva does a lot of soul-searching and her angry siblings will push her to take her revenge. That relationship is going to break, we'll get lots of angst cause Kiva is heartbroken, etc. I think one of her siblings will probably die and his/her last words will either be for her to stop this fighting and make up or to continue the fight. I'm thinking it'll be the brother and he'll say the latter. Idk, if I'm wrong don't tell me, I want to read the books to see if I'm right!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Medical content, War, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, Abandonment, Cursing, Vomit, and Death of parent

charthegoose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

WOW I HAVE NO WORDS! I honestly have no idea what to say THAT ENDING

THE REBEL QUEEN IS KIVA’S MUM!!! SHES A HEALER AND SHES GOING FOR THE CROWN MY DUDES! Jaren has no idea what he’s in for damn. Also Tip is alive thank god 🙏 Naari is one of my favourite characters she better survive the next two books

I’m a student nurse and had a great time reading Kiva’s perspective of caring for her patients

I did call the poison quite early though 😂

this book is a really great read and I highly recommend, can’t wait to read the second book! Make sure to check trigger warnings if that’s something you look at before reading - I’ve listed them as best I can  :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Medical content, Slavery, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Grief, and Excrement