Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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31 reviews

leabharlady's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body horror, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

senevilla's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Minor: Medical trauma, Death, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Sexual assault, War, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, and Pedophilia

wifescullys's review

3.75

"see what i mean? look to yourself. you free. nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. seed your own land. you young and a woman and there's serious limitation in both, but you a person too. [...] somewhere inside you is that free person i'm talking about. locate her and let her do some good in the world."

there's some pockets in this book that r so crazy like the caretending brother sister relationship and the violence and the softness and the coming home but overall too short! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

abigailgross's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Slavery, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

jaan's review

challenging dark reflective fast-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

4.5

Short, but a really powerful book. And sad. Circular narrative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Medical trauma

Moderate: Trafficking, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism

Be warned that this book deals explicitly with eugenics, post-traumatic stress disorder (Frank is a Black veteran returning from Korea), child neglect, and violently racist institutions and behaviors in Jim Crow America. Lynchings are mentioned briefly throughout and graphically described towards the end.

aparizo704's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

Homecoming as a lived experience, rather than a familiar destination. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, and War

ajlct's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

This one's squarely in the 'glad I read it, but probably will never read it again' category. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Abortion and Alcoholism

remie's review against another edition

dark reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Alcoholism, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Murder, Religious bigotry, War, Child death, Classism, Death, and Racism

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Domestic abuse

marthadude's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Violence, and War

andthereishappiness's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault and Medical trauma