Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

31 reviews

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Blood

Moderate: War

Minor: Sexual content

imds's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, War, Blood, Colonisation, Abandonment, Ableism, Medical trauma, Confinement, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Slavery

aggrano's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and War

spredmore's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: War, Murder, and Sexual content

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Bullying, Medical content, Kidnapping, Vomit, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, and Sexual content

meerunilaya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

3.0

Possibly my favorite book in the series. Does a great interpersonal exploration of depression and physical limitations for a fantasy series. 
Great plot development as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Violence

readwithria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

ADDED AFTER 2023 REREAD

Y’all, this book wrecks me. The growth of characters we know and love, the new characters and setting, the HEART that this book has. It’s great. It’s underrated. It’s too long, but Sarah certainly didn’t pull any punches. I will be a Chaol apologist until the day I die. 4.5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Ableism

Moderate: War, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical trauma

Minor: Murder, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Slavery

bookishnatalia's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism and Suicide

psydneigh's review

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

First let me start with, some people think that you can skip this book. YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT SKIP THIS BOOK. Things that happen in this, are vital to the final book and you will be lost if you dont read it. 
Now that thats taken care of… this is my second read through and both times i did the tandem read with Empire of Storm (i believe the superior way to read these two). I think I actually liked this one more on the second read through because I felt more forgiving towards Chaol’s character. I absolutely love the southern continent and could’ve read a whole series on that world. This book also made me the most emotional so far in my reread of the series. I found myself tearing up in a bunch of different places in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, and Stalking

axahean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit