Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

As Old as Time by Liz Braswell

6 reviews

sar_lion's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Quite dark overall, but very well written with lots of changes to the Disney movie. But all good changes, in the long run. The characters already mean so much that I already felt connected to them from the jump. The additions were very interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism and Racial slurs

Minor: Suicide and Sexual harassment

emilywemily6's review

dark hopeful mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

I picked this book because it was the highest rated of this series and Beauty and the Beast is one of my faves. This story is similar to canon, though definitely diverges and heads towards an alternate ending. It was way too long; four hours in, I realized that the book was four hours too long. A major focus of the story was Belle learning about how complicated her mother was, but I didn’t feel like any of the other characters had greater depth than the original movie gives. The past storyline was interesting. Check the trigger warnings because there’s some dark stuff going on. Overall, I am not sure I enjoyed the reading of this book, and I don’t see myself reading the others unless they are much shorter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Self harm, Alcohol, and Gun violence

joisaddler's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry

alliebookworm's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.0

If you’ve ever watched Beauty and the Beast and thought it needed more Holocaust, this book is for you! Add in a dash of getting all the flashbacks up front so when Belle finds clues to the mystery, there is nothing to wonder because we already read what happened 100 pages ago - plus so many typos - and you’ve got yourself a hot mess of Disney torture fetish!

For example, I never thought I’d read about

an asylum orderly calmly explain to Belle that she can either do as she’s told, or he can beat the soles of her feet so hard that she urinates herself in pain and will leave no bruises and no one will believe her anyway because she’s in an asylum.

So, yikes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Medical content, and Physical abuse

vixenreader's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

The ending is a bit of a bummer, it still has a lot of creativity, and it addresses the hiccups in a more fascinating fashion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Colonisation, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Medical trauma, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Abandonment

Minor: Gore, Alcohol, and Sexism

There are discussions of discrimination, segregation, and immigrating outside of a land because of fear for one’s own livelihood.

stardustdreamer's review

dark emotional hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Slavery, Mental illness, Ableism, and Torture

Minor: Classism and Suicide