Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Outlawed by Anna North

79 reviews

raquel_rqlh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Medical content, Transphobia, Biphobia, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

aubreystrawberry's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Homophobia, and Infertility

Moderate: Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Abortion, Blood, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Grief

rachealcroucher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexism, Biphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Transphobia, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Medical content, Miscarriage, Racism, Body shaming, Death, and Emotional abuse

kayschwe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Blood, Murder, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Death, Pregnancy, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Excrement

lovejasmine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

The biggest problem with this book is that it could have been so much better than it was. It could have been so inclusive and intersectional and diverse, and could have been a beautiful, in depth story of marginalised people coming together in a world that hates them.

Instead, we got the barest hint of that, with a very self centred, very white narrator that was, honestly, kind of boring.

The worst thing about this book was it wasn't bad. It just could have been incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Abortion, Blood, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Violence, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Animal death, and Chronic illness

bookishlittleme's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Sort of an Old West Crucible; as described on the back. I've been in quite the reading slump recently and this was the perfect book to get me out of it. It was well paced and action packed. It features a diverse cast of characters centring around queer people and women. Ada is also an incredibly endearing protagonist forced to swiftly grow up. The world is wonderfully built and lets the reader escape to the world of cowboys and outlaws. Definitely worth the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Medical content, Hate crime, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Biphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Infidelity

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Miscarriage, and Alcohol

raemcma's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Infertility and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Racism

growplantsreadbooks's review against another edition

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

I was very impressed by this! I was burned by the last "feminist western" I read, but this was great and I'm looking forward to recommending it to a few friends. 
The characters felt real, the plot was high-stakes, but grounded and there were some excellent pieces of writing throughout. 
Points off because

I didn't like that Lark, the bi eunuch king, was introduced just to die

and I'm not sure how much I'll think about this now that I'm done with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Blood, Infertility, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Suicide attempt, Racism, Mental illness, and Homophobia

stefhany's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Infertility, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Murder

ripxw's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Infertility, Medical content, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Terminal illness, Death, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, and Homophobia