Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Christmas on the Island by Jenny Colgan

6 reviews

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

funny hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Pregnancy, and Medical content

tjazz's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-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

4.5

Trigger warnings.
Hard read for someone who has both lost a loved one to cancer and lost a partner.  Also a lot for anyone who has experienced infertility or pregnancy loss. 
It was a good story. Just a lot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, and Chronic illness

Moderate: War, Islamophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Racism, Infertility, and Pregnancy

cranewife's review against another edition

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Xenophobia, Abandonment, Cursing, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Torture

jacquibear's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Abandonment, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

caitlinjadams's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

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

3.0

First order bit: this was less Christmasy than I had been hoping for and until I came to Goodreads/Storygraph, I didn’t realize it was third in a series (for which I blame Libby), so some of my complaints (such as that it took a long time to get a solid hold on the cast of characters) likely aren’t fair. I think it still holds that this was a book that felt like it was trying to be an ensemble tv show more than it was trying to be a book. Probably my biggest gripe is that for a book told in third person limited POV with so so many different characters serving as the limited POV in turn, I could never tell whose POV I was reading without the markers of literally naming the character by name. If only there had been as many narrative voices as there were POVs. Still. It was a nice enough winter read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, War, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Pregnancy, Murder, and War

adel's review

funny sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Homophobia and Miscarriage

Minor: Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Xenophobia