Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

16 reviews

lenaricharz's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Medical trauma

Minor: Racism

mxfahrenheit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, and Racism

kitkat_kate's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cursing and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Death, and Gun violence

scruffie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Police brutality, Medical content, and Blood

Minor: Vomit, Death, Cursing, and Sexism

laurenwerlinger's review

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book feels exactly like it was written by Hank Green, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. His unique perspectives and experiences make for a book nothing like anything I've read before. 

I've found that usually, sequels don't live up to their predecessors, but in this case, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor was better than An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. I think this is mostly due to the fact that we get a few different POVs. While I'm not usually a fan of switching between the perspectives of different characters, it was done so well here. 

On top of that, Hank Green's wisdom and observations are so smart, meaningful, and comforting. This is exactly how I want my sci-fi to be written. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Vomit, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gore, and Forced institutionalization

lalu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

read for the first time in 2021
Warning: Spoilers for the first book

The Carls are gone and April is dead - but then Andy recieves "The Book of Good Times" what's written in there suggests that April is still alive... Meanwhile Peter Petrawicki (the former leader of the Defenders) founded a company named Altus which recreates the Dream.

It's a great book, but I liked AART better. I felt more invested in the fight between groups of people in the first book, than in

the fight between aliens

Also I wish I could have learned a bit more about Bex or Rob of whom we only got a tiny glimpse compared to the main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Cursing and Racism