Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

6 reviews

jomjom's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Death, Violence, Mental illness, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Incest

hannahpings's review

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content and Grief

ellislilylovestoread's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Dementia, Medical content, Child death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child abuse, Ableism, and Incest

sunny_not's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This was very intriguing and quite confusing.

Why did Mary Katherine kill her family, why is Constance hiding this, why does the townspeople hate them etc.

Many of my questions were left unanswered. I wish it was longer but given the author's state of mind at that time I can understand why it was quite short. Still would recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Bullying

morgan0908's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, and Murder