Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

A Influencer by Ellery Lloyd

8 reviews

ju_harue's review

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

O thriller em si, não curti tanto, tinha potencial mas não me pegou tanto, acho que não foi tão bem trabalhado quanto almejou ser em algumas formas dos desenrolar dos fatos.
Porém as discussões sobre redes sociais, os impactos que os influenciadores podem exercer nas vidas dos seguidores, a exposição, o que é verdade e o que acaba sendo o trabalho; isso achei bem colocado, a um ponto de questionar sobre o que consumimos meio automaticamente, como refletem em nós e o que iremos expor. A construção dos personagens achei um tanto quanto confusa, me pareceu querer abordar vários tópicos e características que algumas vezes se divergiam em outras atitudes dos mesmos, fiquei com a impressão que queria abraçar muitas coisas e nao tinha necessidade de tanto.
Em resumo, não foi um livro incrível pra mim, mas também não foi horrível. Tem vários gatilhos que deixarei listados no Storygraph para quem tiver sensibilidade (e que podem ser spoilers).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Violence, Death, Child death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death of parent, Hate crime, Stalking, Torture, Medical trauma, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Mental illness, Blood, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Eating disorder

haleysversion's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Vomit, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Grief, Suicide, Infertility, Murder, Medical trauma, and Stalking

libras's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Suicide, Alcoholism, Child death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, and Vomit

kels24's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Child death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Infertility, Grief, Death, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

Minor: Toxic friendship and Alcohol

tesslw's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Kidnapping

dramaqueentears's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

Emmy Jackson is an Instagram influencer who goes by Mamabare. She posts all the time, giving vague but enthusiastic advice like, “you’ve got this, mama!” Her account is scattered with photos of her daughter Coco pretending to have fun and sponsored ads pushing toilet paper brands. Her husband Dan is an author who hasn’t published anything in eight years. 

Let me just say this: I knew I wouldn’t like either Emmy or Dan as soon as I learned that their kids are named Coco and Bear. They’re both terrible people. Emmy is horrible because her account is a huge lie and she has no problem putting her kids at risk for her fame. Dan is horrible because he calls himself an author even though he doesn’t write and whines to his wife 24/7 even though he’s only contributed maybe $10 to their finances in eight years and doesn’t do late night feeds.

I don’t mind horrible main characters but the villain was hard to sympathize with. The ending was so anti-climactic and almost unbelievable. I am sitting wondering to myself, “What was even the point of that?” Otherwise though, I liked the premise and the plot was creative. I would probably give the authors another chance!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion

beca_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book explored the exploitive nature of families online. We follow a mother who runs an Instagram account documenting her life as a mother of two children. The catch is she isn't very truthful and plays up for the camera to gain popularity and be relatable. We also get the point of view of her husband a writer who is trying to write his second book. He is wary of putting their kids online and has suggested this to his wife. Lastly we have the point of view of a stalker we don't know who this is and leaves you guessing throughout the book which I really liked. The Stalker has had a past with the mother and now wants revenge and will go to extreme lengths to do so. Overall, this is a really good book, and one of its kind. I felt the writing was quite wooden at times, this may have been due to the authors info dumping about social media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Suicide

stevie's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Suicide