Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason

8 reviews

author_d_r_oestreicher's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

 

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason is set during World War I. Lucius Krzelewski’s family was rich and well-connected. When the war started, he was in medical school, so he enlisted as a medical officer. Back at home, his mother was thrilled by his enlistment but felt that medical duties, out of the line of fire, would seem like cowardice. So she bought him a horse and called upon a friend in the War Ministry to cancel his commission and speed his entry into the lancers, like his father. As fate would have it, he ended up at a field hospital run by a nurse, Margarete, who was a nun and carried a rifle. Lucius was embarrassed by his family’s privilege and his shortcomings as a doctor. Margarete was his opposite. She had a modest background and was confident running the hospital. This is World War I view through the eyes of someone overflowing with humility and empathy. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, War, and Death

lesleslesles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Violence

sergio511's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, War, Death, and Medical content

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Dementia, and Infidelity

kkalicky94's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Grief, Mental illness, War, and Violence

kelseyleigh_h's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: War

ajtownhill's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Slow first third but kept me gripped after that! A really well-written historical fiction novel. I really rooted for Lucius. Of course I wish

that there had been a happy ending, but there is no doubt that there is something poetic about the man that haunted Lucius ending up with the woman Lucius had been searching for for all that time.

If you like The Pianist (Wladyslaw Szpilman), Maus (Art Spiegelman), or other stories set during WWI or WWII, definitely check this one out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Medical trauma and Torture

Minor: Violence and Gore

If you don't mind medical descriptions of war injuries, you should be fine.

katiescott's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Violence