Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Luster by Raven Leilani

89 reviews

amelreads's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• 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: Abortion, Alcoholism, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Medical content, Death of parent, and Cursing

Moderate: Vomit, Police brutality, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Racism, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Animal death, and Cancer

Age gap relationship.

bluebirdreads's review

50% reached. Very little understanding of what was happening/if anything. If something did happen, it was very quickly brushed over with very little clarity. Very blunt narrative which personally didn't gel with me. I didn't feel at all connected to the characters who were all very unlikeable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, Racism, and Sexual content

clem's review

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Drug use, Medical content, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Eating disorder

Minor: Police brutality and Miscarriage

hardcoverhearts's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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: Animal death, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

noshelf_control's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Racism, Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Infertility

Minor: Animal death, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Sexual violence

leahrosereads's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Luster is how I like my books sometimes.  Dark, shocking and horrific.  From the characters and their dynamics to the content, everything about this story was complex and captivating!  I'll definitely be picking up more books by the author in the future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Medical content

kflv's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

latisha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

One of the best books I’ve read in years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

kachina's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence