Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

22 reviews

xosirenox's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Suicide, Medical content, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

ncm5228's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

If you like the movie Inception, this book is for you!  One of the best I’ve read in a while. At the same time, be aware of the content warnings- it is definitely not a light read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Self harm, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Genocide, Violence, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Dementia, Drug use, and Blood

While lots of horrific things mentioned in the content warnings do occur, it is not the main focus of the book at all, so unless the mention of certain things is especially triggering to you, don’t let the content warnings fully dissuade you from reading the book!

moonshinemoxie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

I read this basically obsessively over two days. This is similar to the last Crouch book I read, Dark Matter, but this one was much better. Heavy emotional hitter that I will be chewing on for a long time. Very tense ending, the last 100 pages I literally could not stop reading, and it's probably going to take me a while to calm down and sleep. Lots of dark content in this book, and only a little hope. Great concepts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Medical content

kingsteph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Suicide, Medical content, Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Child death, Mental illness, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

What a fantastic and original take on time travel and its repercussions. Crouch really nailed the urgency and horror, and the narration was wonderful. Barry and Helena forever!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Terminal illness, Dementia, Death, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, War, Suicide attempt, and Grief

jojo_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, Dementia, Violence, War, Child death, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Blood, Car accident, Gun violence, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Vomit

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Normally I enjoy sci-fi set in a “real world” but I couldn’t get my head around this concept. Just not the book for me. It also had a lot of trigger warnings (suicide/violence) that were difficult and caused me to have to put down but I also wanted to push through because so many have loved this book. I didn’t feel like it was worth finishing but glad I tried it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Murder, Self harm, Death, and Suicide attempt

kmayatte's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Self harm, Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, War, Blood, Dementia, Gore, Grief, and Murder

caitlincoile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Child death, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

techigeekchic's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Car accident, Dementia, Self harm, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Terminal illness