Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

All's Well by Mona Awad

55 reviews

maryjames's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction

panyvina's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I listened to this as an audiobook and I just want to say MY GOD, WHAT AN AMAZING NARRATOR.

Having said that, I didn’t love this read. In the first part I was hypnotized; I loved every single bit, I felt so understood with my injured knee, I appreciated the writing so much! I even read along All’s Well That Ends Well because I could tell it was just going to be that kind of quality read with depth and subtexts! And then by the middle part of the book I honestly just wanted it to be over, I was so tired and embarrassed for the main character I actually yelled at her a couple of times because I just needed her to snap out of it. I KNOW this is a sign of great writing because… that was kind of the point, wasn’t it? But for it to go in for so long I really couldn’t take it anymore. I honestly only finished it because I go on half an hour walks every day and I listen to my current audiobook as I walk. I do have to say the last 30% of the book took back what it’d left in the beginning and it was wacky and intense and I did appreciate it a lot, I also could feel how the author weaved the book in a theatre structure like I really can’t say this is a bad book because it’s really well constructed but If I ever reread this I would just skip the middle. The ending was nice, like a flower saying All’s Well after that damn nightmare but I did feel like it lacked something, I’m not sure what.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Drug abuse

decie's review against another edition

dark tense

1.0

something about this book just rubbed me the wrong way. a big part of that was definitely the way disability was talked about/used almost like a horror element in parts....it feels like it's supposed to show the reality of life as a woman with chronic pain, but it just ended up pushing cure rhetoric and framing disabled people as crabby old hags with "dead legs" who are resented by their former loved ones

until they are cured and "back to normal" for the happy ending

 

I am literally begging authors to stop using the magically disabled and tragically disabled tropes in their books. it really shouldn't be this hard.

I also felt like Awad was trying to have an unreliable narrator but made her so unreliable that half of the story was lost. we only needed one sentence from a onlooker's pov to make the entire book make sense, but we didn't get that. instead, we got a bizarre ableist fever dream without any clear messaging. wild.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, and Misogyny

Minor: Alcohol, Physical abuse, and Rape

astronut's review against another edition

dark funny tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Body horror, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

Minor: Death

lisa00's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual content

bluberrybooks's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.5

I enjoyed the story writing and the story itself. The way she talks about pain and how the doctors and people around her treat her is very real. Doctors dismiss and don't really listen to their patients. They all have their own idea of chronic pain that is flawed and treat their patients horribly in different ways wheather they mean to or not. I have chronic apin and I related to doctors/ physical therapists not really understanding or not having the knowledge to help me. There were many lines that's struck me. 

 I loved the magic and dream sequences. It felt like a thriller, comedy, drama and realistic fiction all at once. I love the different genres combined

All's well really captures chronic pain and how ignored and overlooked it is by everyone around you even family. 

Spoiler...

 I love the character development even if it was small with most of the characters like Briana and how Grace apologized  Miranda grew as a character as well. 

This review is not well written, but I loved it overall

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gaslighting, Violence, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

wishesandpages's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Gaslighting

rosalind's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Had high hopes for this as it has all the ingredients that sounded perfectly up my street. The concept was intriguing and I can’t lie, as a chronic pain sufferer myself, I found moments extremely cathartic. But the writing style really let it down for me; for the most part, it felt heavy-handed and lacking in the kind of subtle exploration I was hoping for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Chronic illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Death, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy and Ableism

stevie's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Fatphobia

beccam22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Ableism, and Gaslighting