Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

18 reviews

bookedupchick's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

3.5

“When you ignore me, I burn with restlessness; it feels as though the sun has turned its back on the world. And when you smile at me—when you gaze at me like you can see my soul—I feel … I feel like I am lit on fire, like you have been called by God to raze my world.” 🖤🖤🖤

Sara is a firefighter who drew the short straw and was sent on a mission — to kill the horseman. Pestilence is an immortal horseman sent by god to infect the human race with the plague. When their worlds collide and turn upside down, what they thought was their purpose completely changes…🤴🐎

I thought it was interesting, but I was enamored by it. The spice was okay, but not really what I was thinking. 🤷🏼‍♀️

🦠 Post Apocalyptic 
⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 
💀 “I was sent to kill you” Vibes
🌹 Beauty & the Beast Vibes
👥 Forced Proximity 
🔮 Romantasy 

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
🌶️🌶️/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gore, Torture, Sexual content, Gun violence, Child death, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, Cursing, Alcohol, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

meggs1005's review

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy

readwithelle's review

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, Chronic illness, Torture, and Violence

rapgamenancyreagan's review

dark funny 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: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror and Gore

queenie_ofthe_void's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

dark inspiring slow-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

4.5

Incredibly unique romance. I never really felt like we got to see enough of Pestilence’s emotions. The strength of Sara’s emotions still made for an incredibly compelling narrative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, and Violence

books_bunny's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

This book surprised me, whilst I went in relatively blind and expecting an average read I found myself really enjoying this book. Some of the themes were a lot darker than I expected and, whilst I really enjoyed how the author wrote them, I can see why some people would not. If you are sensitive to certain themes I would recommend checking the content warnings beforehand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Vomit, and Medical content

deerestdoe's review

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

Can be fun, as long as you can ignore how ridiculous it is. Reading it in the middle of a pandemic feels kind of surreal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness

Minor: Blood, Child death, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Toxic relationship, and Vomit