Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

8 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Grief, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Medical content, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexism, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Minor: War, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and Dementia

Colorism

apolloann's review

I plan to come back to this, I'm just finding it very triggering ATM. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Death

Only made it a few pages in before being pretty triggered by a gyno scene, which was arguably not very graphic, just full of dysphoria and discomfort and I didn't do my homework prior to starting this one to prepare myself

danaaliyalevinson's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? No

4.5

I liked this book a lot! I’m a sucker for a generational story, which are also really hard to pull off well. I think this book has a few contrivances between the two depicted generations but largely pulls off a satisfying conclusion. The prose is beautiful. And as a trans person reading it, the relationship especially between Nadir and Sami was so beautifully rendered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Transphobia

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Zeyn Joukhadar amazes once again. Their writing always reaches into my soul and leaves fingerprints. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Grief, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

revoluca's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved you once, and I love you still, but not all migrations end with a return home. Even memory begins to cut if you hold on to it too tight. I don't know anymore if I believe in angels and signs. Perhaps we are the miraculous creatures my mother was looking for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Grief

unboxedjack's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book.   THIS BOOK.  I went into expecting some emotional response, but not to the degree I just experienced.  Joukhadar's prose is beautiful enough to stir a reaction, but his deft ability to use language to speak the unspoken in such a genuine and humble fashion is truly remarkable.  This book provided that and more.  The keen attention to the intersection of race, gender, SES, and sexuality (just to name a few) gave this book an authenticity I've rarely seen.  And as a transguy, I can't put into words just how cathartic it was to see such verisimilitude of that lived experience reflected back to me; I didn't know how hungry I was for that until I came to the last 50 pages or so.  

This was a book I didn't want to end, but I can't imagine it ending any other way.  It migrated its way into my heart and will nest there for quite some time.  Five stars, no question about it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Grief, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Racism, and Transphobia

moonyreadsbystarlight's review

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

 In beautiful prose, stories from two different times converge, connected by art, queerness, and community. This book explores grief, identity, and community in ways I have never seen articulated together in such a cohesive and breathtaking way. Each aspect of the story contains multitudes, weaved together so intentionally. I'm not sure I can even articulate all of my feelings or all aspects of the story with one read. It's one that I want to reread even more intentionally -- not just for theme or plot, but to peel back the emotional layers. I'm afraid this is more of a 3am rambling post than a proper review, but suffice it to say, this is an incredible book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, and Child death

Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia

mensturation, child birth

mandkips's review

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Death, Xenophobia, Grief, and Hate crime