Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

60 reviews

evawondergem's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Murder, and Blood

ssilberman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, and Medical content

mdelawter's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Child death, Colonisation, Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Sexual assault

lbhone's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

5.0

I… I’ve never read a book like this before. Murder mystery by also walking through the life of a woman near forgotten. This book was near impossible to put down, and I had to pry myself away from it often. During parts of it, I thought I would put in a lower rating due to it taking a bit to get to the murder mystery solution (I like results quickly… what can I say…). I am glad that I didn’t. This book was written perfectly, and tied up all loose ends. It gave me my solution and closure, while giving a form of justice to those who deserve it. I often recommend books to friends because they are good. This book is not good… it is perfect and an experience that needs to be had.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Grief, Physical abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Death

smatz10's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

4.5 ⭐️ I absolutely loved this book! Martha was the baddest biotch FMC and I loved her. She took no one’s BS and I feel like for that time period, that was unheard of from a woman. I felt like the characters were so complex and the story was so streamlined. I also appreciated how when certain characters names were brought up again, it usually included some back story from a previous chapters to kind of “remind” you who they were seeing as that there were a LOT of characters in this book. The story was fantastic and I appreciated reading something I normally don’t usually read about.

Please check trigger warnings on this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Murder, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Medical content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Colonisation, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: War, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Child death

ashleyj_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Author's Craft is some of the best I've seen in a LONG time. Great character development and relationships!! Plot and unfolding of events is all clever, beautiful, and very well-timed.
A couple small minor character plot holes I wish had been given closure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Rape

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Chronic illness, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual content and Emotional abuse

skyebird16's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Misogyny, Child death, Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

readingonfordearlife's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual violence

librarianeno's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

This was a fun book for me as it's set in an area I'm very familiar with. Before this book was published, I hadn't heard of Martha Ballard, but now I want to learn more about her and her life. She seemed like a strong, brave, independent woman during a time when all three of those traits were looked down on by society.

The story follows a year of Martha Ballard's life as both a midwife and as a witness to a rape victim. Large parts of the story take place in court. Either in the tavern court which seemed like the equivalent to a district court, or in the county court. Parts of this story were very heavy. But it's very easy to get attached to the characters and want things to go well for them. And it's also very easy to hate the "bad guy" in this story as well. He is not a likable person.

I would classify this book as historical fiction/mystery/suspense. I got this book from the library at first because when I saw it on Book of the Month, it had a warning for graphic rape and discussion of death. I would say that both of those things are prevalent within the story, so if they are triggers, you might want to reconsider. I was able to get through it without having to fast-forward (listened to it on audio). I'm planning on purchasing to add to my collection

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Grief, Emotional abuse, Blood, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Death, Rape, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder

amandafitz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Violence, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Genocide, Misogyny, Abortion, Blood, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Child death, Bullying, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, and War