Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

6 reviews

jmitchell20's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, and War

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Rape

happyknitter2020's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely brilliant book. Read as shortlisted for The Women's Prize 2024...think this is the clear winner. The writing is beautiful, strong & clear. Learned so much about the civil war & complex trauma experiments. A definitive 5 star book, will be at the top of my 2024 books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Death, and Murder

jouljet's review

challenging emotional informative tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Genocide, Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

katarinabee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, Grief, War, Medical trauma, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

estam1's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, War, and Sexism

atsundarsingh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

I couldn't put this down. It was incandescent. It was searing. It made my heart physically ache, and made me do a thousand searches for nonfiction follow-ups. I am 100% going to read Ganeshananthan's previous book. the writing for this just completely gripped me, and once I got going in earnest, it just snowballed. 

The family of the novel's protagonist Sashi is complex, and the book spends the entire time slowly unwinding the moral complexity of strongly held beliefs, and unravelling the word 'terrorist'. I was struck by the way Ganeshananthan made the entire cast of characters possible to understand, and you could see consistency of character even as motivation and ideologies changed. Truly can't wait to insist that everyone read this in 2023 and beyond. 

*Thanks to Random House, NetGalley for the ARC. Book release: 3 Jan 2023* 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Genocide, Violence, Torture, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Hate crime, War, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Police brutality