Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

27 reviews

liormaleficent's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Child death and Medical trauma

reviewsandreadathons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Racism, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse

booksthatburn's review against another edition

 It’s told in chunks, creating at feeling of jagged edges and snippets of a story. I liked it at first and then got to the

back-to-back detailed descriptions of birth and a stillbirth/miscarriage

, which is a hard no for me. Even if the rest of the book is fine I need to stop. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Animal death, Death, and Child death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Miscarriage, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Child death, Animal death, Confinement, and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Rape, Domestic abuse, Cancer, and Panic attacks/disorders

Use of slurs is reclaimed. Institutionalization refers to imprisonment/incarceration.

maryellen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Child death, and Drug abuse

skylaturner's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

alas_aly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• 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

I really struggle because I genuinely don't like books that are mostly about how bad everything is. Ugh, this is actually really hard to define. I can appreciate a book about a person and the difficulties that they might go through because of how bad everything is. I just struggle with stories that forefront the badness at the expense of the characters which I think this book did. Who were Kevin and Ella? They were empathetic, smart, angry, and black. That didn't feel like enough to me and I was always distant from them as characters. 
That being said, its not wrong. We do live in a world where violence is perpetrated on Black people constantly. You can't individualize yourself out of it by being good or learning to see what is good about your life. I believe that the system is bad and that violence may be the answer to that. I guess I just don't love reading about it?
The writing was excellent. It was vivid like this was a movie being told to you very well. I could clearly picture everything that was happening in the story. I think that even if the characters weren't super well-realized, the archetypes were very clear to me. I think their motivations were spot - on and clear. 
This leaves me in a somewhat muddy place. Did I like this book? I don't think so. Or not very much. Is it a good book? I think it is even if it wasn't right for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Child death

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness