Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

17 reviews

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, Body horror, Classism, Vomit, Violence, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

casira's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Classism, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping

Minor: Violence and Gun violence

karly_ackley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Addiction

Moderate: Dysphoria, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

erika_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, and Violence

lisa_m's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense 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

This book was so different to the first one. It still tackled similar issues but the vibe was different. 

Whereas the first book was about community, fame and working together to solve a mystery - the second book was more about society & social criticism while trying to avoid a war / complete human subjugation.

I took a break when I was about halfway through this book. Mostly because I wasn't in the right headspace to read about a possible war and so many bad people. This book is very realistic in it's approach. There is a lot of scientific knowledge and also social critisism done in a clear and well thought through way. It is obvious that Hank Green knew what message he wanted this book to have and he didn't incorporate it subtly at all. I didn't mind that though. The message was obvious but also fit into the story perfectly and gave the characters more depth. I loved the different POVs and how every character had a unique and explored personality. Also they are all flawed but still choose to do the right thing. It sometimes got frustrating to read about annoying, powerhungry and bad people but at least you knew that they would eventually loose and in reallife that doesn't really happen.

I listened to this book and I would highly recommend the audiobook experience. There are multiple different voice actors with easily distinguishable voices. Also Hank Green himself narrated the part of a podcast which was pretty cool.

I had a review almost twice as long as this but I accidentally deleted it... Anyways I think that was mostly what I wanted to say. I might add some stuff later on.

Oh also I would recommend this duology very much! Still I know that many people won't like it. It has a very particular narrating style and also the characters can be frustrating. It is definitely not a book you can read or listen to with only half your brain. You will need to think about it and analyse it. I know that I will continue to think about it for a long time to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Classism, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Addiction

aseel_reads's review against another edition

mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

i really enjoyed this book, mostly because i am a lefty haha. i definitely had forgotten everything that had happened in the first book but thankfully the book explains the previous events in enough detail to get the general picture. 

i liked the plot and the different characters, i enjoyed most of the social commentary, however, at times it was quite on the nose. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Confinement, Outing, Biphobia, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, and Medical content

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Medical content, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Racism

theirgracegrace's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring lighthearted reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Racism, Physical abuse, Grief, Violence, Murder, Mental illness, and Death

cheye13's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Highly recommend the audiobook.

I think the first book had to do a lot of unfortunate fame- and internet-related groundwork to make this book possible, so for those who felt let down by An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, I urge you to continue with this sequel. I liked the first one fine, but this one is indeed remarkable.

I'm a sucker for an ensemble cast, and the plot offers a lot of insight into current affairs. Occasionally a bit too close for comfort – akin to reading 1984 in 1984, I imagine. A timely and skillfully executed science fiction story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Cursing, Kidnapping, Racism, Violence, and Vomit

Not explicitly police brutality, but a scene with a police altercation may be upsetting. Some dicussions of and/or conflations of reality vs virtual reality may be upsetting.

lara_r's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Addiction, and Racism

Minor: Gun violence and Death