Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

5 reviews

emikateb's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Religious bigotry, War, Grief, Medical trauma, and Sexism

Moderate: Classism, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Violence, Death of parent, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal cruelty

sammymilfort's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Grief, War, Alcohol, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Classism, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Medical content, and Trafficking

Minor: Death of parent

laurenw's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infertility, Police brutality, Pregnancy, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cancer and Toxic relationship

nebraskanwriter's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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? No

4.5

“He scratched a proverb on the wall for future inmates: ‘Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, he became a butterfly.’” 

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Wow, what an amazing book! Being over 500 pages, I was a little intimated to start this but the audiobook was superb and I flew through this.

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The story begins a little slow as Sepetys begins painting a picture of 1957 Spain, controlled by the dictator Franco. She immerses you in the people, the culture, their lives and the many secrets they keep. The silent vow they take. She examins this moment in history from multiple angles, following multiple characters who help show the reader that all is not what it seems in Spain. You have the American, the maid at the hotel and her family, a grave digger and an employee at a Catholic orphanage. But something is off. Children are going missing. Orphanages are overflowing. Mothers are asking about their children and where they went. But no one is giving answers, no one is saying anything. 

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Sepetys slowly pulls back the layers of Franco’s Spain, exposing to Daniel (the naive American) what is actually going on and what all the Spanish people are enduring under the dictator. As I did not know much about Spain’s history, I found this story both fascinating and also horrifying. 

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Sepetys is a master at humanizing history, bringing to life the words in our history books and giving voices to those who have been silenced for far too long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Confinement, and Religious bigotry

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Excrement, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Antisemitism