Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

El código de Cruel by James Dashner

3 reviews

_ren's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense fast-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

5.0

The prequel we all needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Child abuse, Body horror, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Gore, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical content, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Genocide, and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

allisonbrooke's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Violence, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, and Gore

oktuber's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.0

This is one of the most boring books I've ever read. I had to stop reading for a few months, then I was able to push through until the end. It feels like a cash-grab on the part of Dashner: there was no reason for this book to be written. In fact, it felt like it weakened the other books. Instead of exploring other characters or topics, we got to watch the same cast of characters form the exact same friendships. Wouldn't it have been interesting (and heartbreaking) to see Thomas have deep and genuine friendships that, after his memory was erased, he never remembered?

This book was pointless, and the worst part was that it was boring. While reading the original trilogy, I found that the constant go-go-go of the plot and constant violence became boring after awhile. Especially when several nameless characters died and we were supposed to care about them. This book had the opposite problem. Most of the book was told through summaries of what was happening, in which Thomas repeatedly did a whole lot of nothing. In the brief times that there were actual action/plot beats... I couldn't find it in me to care. 

That said, I did enjoy the ending. Dashner is really good at making me hate the same character for four books... although I don't think that was his intention. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Cannibalism, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Excrement, Kidnapping, and Medical content