Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

6 reviews

mags88's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

Twists - historical - empowerment- female lead - trauma - resilience 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Rape, Medical trauma, War, Pregnancy, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Abandonment, and Murder

amsu's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

The mystery of the disappearance of Agatha Christie as told by the mistress of her husband. A really good set up for a mystery book.
I really liked this book after getting over the fact that a real life event was fictionalized for this story ( luckily some names were changed)
The atmosphere, characters and even the mystery solved are clearly very Christie-esque, which made the book better.

I also appreciated  what we learned about the life of Archie Christies mistress, which was very tragic but interesting to read about.

The one thing I didn't like about this book was the insta-love aspect that occurred between two characters, but even that was very fitting to some mystery books that Christie wrote

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Medical trauma, War, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Treatment of unmarried women that were pregnant in the 1920s, are described here.

brennarose's review

emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Uninventive, predictable. Two dimensional characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

highladymagnus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Child death

Moderate: War

vixenreader's review

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

2.5

For a book about Agatha Christie’s disappointment, it runs into more cliches than a bad mystery novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Pregnancy, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and War

Minor: Racism

There is starvation and emotional abuse of young woman at the hand of religious figures.

dorsetreader's review against another edition

mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment