Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

174 reviews

milton's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Vomit, Sexual content, and Medical content

eimearhayes's review

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

While objectively an amazingly well written book, I often found myself bored while reading and having to push myself through to get to the next part where I hoped to find some big exciting moment. Though none of the book, even the big reveals, felt very impactful. The whole book I felt sort of detached from the story. In part I think this is intentional, to make this dystopian world seem like a slightly skewed normal, but overall just not my favourite style to read. I would definitely still recommend this book though. The world and characters created are extremely interesting and very morally thought provoking. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Infertility, and Death

areadingstan's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content and Death

Minor: Cancer and Infertility

kirareads02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

This was such a tense listen. You never knew what was going to happen or what secrets would be told. I really enjoyed how we found everything out slowly, and the narrator told us her story as though we lived in that world, like we knew what her school was. 

Really lovely, romantic and hopeful book. At the start I was hooked but couldn't understand reviews as to why it was classed as a dystopian novel so that was interesting for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Medical content, Infertility, and Sexual content

Minor: War, Classism, Cursing, Cancer, and Confinement

j_hanchey's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Medical content

resolving2read's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content

brekker_by_brekker's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Death

milda_mark's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Medical content

chirimoya_222's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Body horror, Death, and Slavery

rensreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

that hurted

i’m honestly not sure at all what i should say. i hated the narration style with a passion but the story really had me. i almost cried at the end. it’s the worst to be the last one in the end and i hate feeling lonely more than anything so that almost got me.

still, i’m glad kath and tommy got a chance, no matter how small it was.

i hate ruth though. she’s awful. tommy may have been in love with someone else the entire time he was with ruth but he never cheated — unlike her. ugh, that made me officially hate her. she was awful before but that was downright disgusting of her.

i also think kath is an unreliable narrator to be honest. im not sure but the way she kept explaining her memories made me think she was misremembering them for some reason. she was a little likable but i didn’t really like any of the characters if im going to be honest.

despite all of that, i’d rate this 3.75 stars (:

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Toxic friendship, Infertility, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Child abuse

be wary of ruth and kath’s telling of her memories