Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

5 reviews

ashleysweitz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, Dementia, Death, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Ableism, Trafficking, and Child death

cato_o's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, and Terminal illness

ginbat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hosseini's writing always has a poetic feeling to it, I would say this book is of course more "enjoyable" than The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns if only because our characters are not subject to the same amount of violence. This story is more.. Floaty? The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that the ending feels too much like ATSS.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, Abandonment, War, Chronic illness, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Infertility

Minor: Child death

Adoption trauma

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

I’m always happy to pick up a Khalid Hosseini novel and I’m glad to say I loved this one as well BUT it just fell flat for me compared to the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, Bullying, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• 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: Infidelity, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Dementia, Chronic illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Classism, Death, War, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Medical content, Misogyny, Suicide, and Sexism

Minor: Gun violence, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Physical abuse