Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

16 reviews

carissa230's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

 At this point I would probably read a menu if Kristin Hannah wrote it.

The Great Depression and Dust Bowl was a hard time for the United States. The Four Winds is a look at what it was like for one family to survive.

Elsa had a rough childhood, never felt like she fit with her family, and was always looking for her place in the world. One night she meets a young man and they procreate. As soon as her parents find out they dump her at his parents house and pretty much never speak to her again.

Elsa finds her place in the world among this new family and is thriving helping run the farm. When the Dust Bowl hits Texas they are hit hard. Elsa has to decide what is the best thing to save her family. When she decides to take her children and move to CA she thinks this is the beginning of a new life for them. Little did she know that they would be treated like pariahs.

As the families in CA grow more and more desperate to survive, the ones that have are getting more aggressive with the have nots.

It is sad to see how in some ways history is repeating itself with people blaming immigrants for their problems. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Police brutality

Moderate: Medical content and Murder

mandi4886's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Xenophobia

sully_404's review

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content and Medical content

haleynaley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.5

The first book to make me cry, twice, in the middle 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Xenophobia

bedtimesandbooks's review

dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical content, Gun violence, Death, Death of parent, and Child death

gm_vak's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, and Violence