Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Долгий путь к маленькой сердитой планете by Becky Chambers

72 reviews

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

4.0

Rating and review previously held during the HPCUnion strike.

This was an enjoyable story and intro to the Wayfayer crew. Already grabbed the sequel from the library! Also, Rosemary *cries*

CW: xenophobia, drugging, gun violence, violence, non-consensual medical procedure, grief, death, terminal illness

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Grief

charlotteschapter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, and War

Minor: Drug use, Genocide, and Sexual content

dancers_and_dragons's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and War

Fantasy/sci-fi racism and xenophobia is present with certain individuals, but not the whole, and is presented as a bad thing overall. Racism as is present in our own day-to-day society is not present.

cekennamer's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

It's nice to read to a story, especially a sci-fi epic, where the are no Grand Prophecies or Evil Empires or Chosen Ones Handpicked By Destiny To Save The Universe From The Machinations Of Evil. The Long Way chooses to instead focus on the "little people", more specifically a multi-species found family whose main concern isn't overthrowing space tyrants, but of completing their next wormhole tunneling job. This story may be boring to some, with pages and pages of quiet yet intimate and endearing character development and visits to fascinating alien worlds, but to me it was a breath of fresh air in a sci fi landscape that seems to care more about cgi explosions than of crafting a story that will stick with you. Also I'm a sucker for tall reptilian ladies. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, and War

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Violence, and Vomit

singalana's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

relin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

Was an absolute joy to read, thinking about how different peoples would interact and finding family rather than the one folks are born into. Going to reread this story again as it handled hard things in soft kind ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Blood and War

Racial slurs and racism are space racism and not real life racism/racist terms.

neni's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad slow-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

This is was not what I was expecting, but that turned out to be a good rhing. 
Although it is tecnically scifi set in space (which is still cool on its own), I would describe the plot as relatively slow-paced, and based almost entirely on character studies and character development. Nothing especially adventurous or exciting happens until the end of the book, but each small scene and problem that come up throughout the story serves as a plataform and an opportunity for exploring the characters issues and, most importantly, their relationships with each other.
At first, I wasnt sure how I felt about this model, since I was expecting a fast paced science fiction aventure and thats not at all what this is. However, about half way through I did warm up to it because I started to get attached to the characters themselves and invested in their wellbeing (which is the point I think).
Other positive points I want to mention are: 
-the writing style. Its quite simple, nothing extra flowery, but Becky Chambers is quite good at writing dialogue and character interactions in a way that really hits you in the feels
-the world building is fascinating. I found the Aandrisk and Aelon cultures particularly interesting. The exploration of different ways to structure society, families and interpersonal relationships was a joy to read.

That development at the end was so sad, it broke my heart. But it was handled incredibly well.

Also, this is really random, but I cant be the only one that kept picturing Elon Musk everytime Rosemary's shitbag father was mentioned lol

Overall, I enjoyed this and am excited to read the next installments in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Medical content and Religious bigotry

cookiecat73's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Self harm, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, War, and Classism

idun_aurora's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-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

What a lovely book! The detailed descriptions got a bit long-winded for me at times, hence four stars, but the characters were amazing! They make and drive the story, which I absolutely loved, making me laugh and cry, sometimes simultaneously. Definitely my kind of sci-fi.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War