Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley

62 reviews

narsere's review

3.25

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse

sdloomer's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Abandonment

kaygray's review

5.0

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing 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: No

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HP fan fiction blah blah blah... You'd never know. You wouldn't. The world is fleshed out, lived in. There's a whole biology lesson on their magic! And the characters are so unique and truly themselves, and just all around lovely. This book is truly magic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence, Murder

mrsmotownfill's review

4.5

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious fast-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: Complicated

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Witty, elite banter and bickering, excellent dry humor, the slowest of slow burns…much cackling while kicking my feet was had. This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for from Brigitte after hearing the plot of her debut novel and knowing the perfection that is DMATMOOBIL. I had so much fun reading this and I cannnnnnooooooot WAIT for book 2 🤩🤩🤩

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Murder

Minor: Child death, Terminal illness

imbored_soillread's review

3.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Plot- .75 
Aurienne is a healer, Oric is an assasin. Their professions contradict one another, but they are forced to work together when Oric might loose his magic without healing.  Overall I didn’t have any complaints about the plot, the pacing did feel a little off, I’m all for a slow burn, but it felt like a complete 180 from hate to love instead of tension building over time. A few things bugged me regarding the plot though.

I’m not sure if this is going to be a series or just a standalone, but I was disappointed when the motive for them working together in the first place (Oric needing healing) wasn’t settled, it was just left unresolved.

I’m leaving this complaint out of the spoiler warning because I think people need to know going in (but skip this if you don’t want to know about individual spicy scenes) but there was a very uncomfortable instance in which Oric did things in the same room as a sleeping Aurienne, hoping she wouldn’t wake up. It felt very creepy and predatory. 

Setting- .5 
I have no idea how to describe this world. The magic system, creatures, and order system are all super fleshed out and interesting. However, I couldn’t tell if this was set in an alternate past of our universe, a whole new fantasy world, or even possibly the future.

Characters- .25 
I felt the characters all fell very flat. Aurienne was very cocky, but not in an endearing way. Oric seemed laughably soft and weak willed for an assasin. I never really understood the chemistry between them. 

Prose/Style- 1 
The reason I kept reading was the writing style and humor. This book was really funny, I haven’t laughed out loud at a book in a long time. (I will say a lot of the humor is potty, or sexual related humor if that is a problem for some readers) I also loved the writing style and narration style being more casual almost? Like being in the narrators literal thoughts almost. 

Enjoyment- .75 
I enjoyed this almost all the way through, but I got bored towards the end. The humor kept me going and not much else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

jorkreu's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous funny 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

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Beautifully executed romantasy! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic

dogoodwithbooks's review

2.5

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was such a disappointment for me. The plot itself wasn't terrible and the world-building was passable (though it did seem undecided on whether it wanted to be gaslamp or urban romantasy). However, the banter gets old pretty fast (they literally just argue over the same things) and Osric has absolutely no redeeming qualities about him that would make me want to care for him. Like, the only reason I cared about Osric in the slightest was so that he would leave Aurienne, an overworked but gifted healer dealing with a literal pandemic at her healing center, alone after she healed him. Plus, I felt that some of Knightley's turns of phrase was pretty weird, and I don't know if it's because of the British dialect she wrote the book in or she was attempting to make a joke, but I was not getting it at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent

a_newton's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

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Painfully slow burn, enemies to lovers with a unique government/magic system. The banter was absolute perfection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder

jessikalange's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Okay this book is a SLOW BURN! It takes you a minute to really figure out what is going on. Stick with it. The payout is totally worth it. The banter was bantering. The humor was dry. 5 stars. 

I'd say this is like a fantasy version of Butcher and Blackbird. Funny. Murders. Mystery. Slow burn romance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, War

submerged_animatronic's review

4.75

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, War

Minor: Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment