Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Contagion by Erin Bowman

3 reviews

el_wheel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

dlrosebyh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Suicide, Addiction, and Medical content

typedtruths's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Reread #1 (Dec 2020): ★★★★☆

remind me, why did i think reading about contagions was a good idea during a real-life pandemic

Original Read (Aug 2019): ★★★☆☆

when you think you rated a book five stars but goodreads says you gave it three stars 🤦‍♀️

➸ Trigger warnings for

ableism (including denied work due to medical condition), parental abandonment recount, self-harm, suicide by gun (on-page in the prologue & mentioned later), graphic blood & gore depiction, dead bodies, physical injuries & illness, eyeball trauma, contagion (central theme), medical emergency & serious (terminal) illness of a loved one, needles & syringes, blood test, emesis, death of a cousin, death of a father in a military-related explosion mentioned, death of a colleague, death of parents recounted, death from strangulation mentioned, death by electrocution, murder & attempted murder, knife & gun violence, kidnapping, drowning mentioned, and blizzards & severe storms

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▷ Representation: Thea (mc) Turkish-Korean; Nova (mc) brown, vision impaired (degenerative eye condition) & sapphic; Dylan (sc) sapphic & recovered addict; Lisbeth (sc) tremor in her hand; Sullivan (sc) POC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Medical content, Gore, Death, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Chronic illness

ableism (including denied work due to medical condition), parental abandonment recount, self-harm, suicide by gun (on-page in the prologue & mentioned later), graphic blood & gore depiction, dead bodies, physical injuries & illness, eyeball trauma, contagion (central theme), medical emergency & serious (terminal) illness of a loved one, needles & syringes, blood test, emesis, death of a cousin, death of a father in a military-related explosion mentioned, death of a colleague, death of parents recounted, death from strangulation mentioned, death by electrocution, murder & attempted murder, knife & gun violence, kidnapping, drowning mentioned, and blizzards & severe storms

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