Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

4 reviews

tallnecked_pancakeface's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Confinement, Death, Torture, Gore, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

michellestoll's review against another edition

Depictions were too graphic for me (torture, dissection) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, and Gore

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

This was a decent fantasy romance book. I didn’t absolutely love it, but I will probably read the sequel.
The world building was decent, though the explanation of soul magic was a bit confusing and hard to follow. There was some info-dumping at the beginning which always turns me off a bit, but it wasn’t unforgivable.
I thought the plot was somewhat rushed, and I especially thought the romance was built up too quickly and didn’t feel real to me. I like when the author makes me work for it haha
I was disappointed that mermaids weren’t more involved in the plot. 

In one sentence, I would say the book has a similar vibe to a Court of Thorns and Roses, but not as good.

Spice level: 🌶🌶/5

Specific to the audiobook:
I want to preface this by saying that I absolutely love audiobooks, so a negative review is rare from me. Unfortunately, I strongly disliked the narration of this book and would recommend skipping the audiobook. The narrator seemed too focused on creating different voices for each character, and ended up making most of them sounds incredibly annoying…I also noticed some weird editing where it was obvious that different takes had been spliced together. Finally, the narrator’s constant pronunciation of silent G’s grated my nerves the entire book. (“ding-Guh-y”, “sing-Guh-ing”, etc).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Torture

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexism, Slavery, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, War, Death of parent, Death, Trafficking, Medical content, and Alcohol

rachrreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Vomit