Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

14 reviews

kjm_x's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Kidnapping, Blood, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and War

marvel1d28's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

I loved this book! I never read anything like it before. It includes very sweet romance and friendship while also taking a creative twist by making the characters in the same body. Only problem for me probably because I am picky not because this book has a problem was that the representation of any minority group was non-existant and if there was any it was so small I didn't even notice. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Hate crime, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Murder, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, and Medical content

mfrank's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This was one of my favorite books when I was younger and I haven't read it since I was in maybe 7th grade. I decided to reread it, nervously, because I've recently noticed that a lot of the books I loved as a kid don't hold the same love and fascination for me as an adult. I love them for the nostalgia factor, but the story no longer holds up or makes me happy and excited in the same way. I am so happy to say that this is not one of the those books. If anything, I felt more emotional reading it this time around than when I first read it. I read this book long before I ever read any tragedies or books with sad endings, and reading this now conjured up a lot of those feelings. I felt more connected to Wanderer and her fear of losing everything and having to give up love and her struggle of not fitting in where she felt she should belong. I have always cited this book as the exception for my distaste of love triangles because although there are only three bodies involved in the love triangle in this book, there are four minds. I truly still love this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation and Genocide

Minor: Body horror, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Murder

eamily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Violence, Medical content, Blood, Confinement, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Self harm, Cancer, Dysphoria, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Torture, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Vomit, War, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood