Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

2 reviews

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

As a second book in a trilogy, Fevered Star does a lot of the things that middle books do - a lot of traveling back and forth as characters have to get to new places and discover new backstory, small expansions in the magic system, moments that begin to deepen the world building and conflict, etc. It felt less intentional than the first book, but likely just because we are no longer counting down toward a specific event, and have to navigate the "after." I loved the symmetry of the starting and ending action on sun rock and our expanded understanding of the gods and god powers. 

There were a few POVs I wanted more of, but I ultimately understand why we had the characters we did in this installment and appreciate where we ended and where we will likely go from here.

Again, the full-cast audio production is excellent and I highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Medical trauma, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Some pretty gross eyeball moments!

lucystolethesky's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Blood, Gore, War, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, Xenophobia, and Grief

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt