Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

La casa al final de Needless Street by Catriona Ward

80 reviews

maimy_santiago99's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

Well written. Not Gothic, not really horror. Psychological, upsetting, heart breaking, rage inducing. Includes physical and psychological harm to children.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Physical abuse, Grief, Child death, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, Death, Suicide, Murder, Torture, Animal death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia

kcelena's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gore, and Mental illness

mfsquared's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This is not a book that I felt only one way about as I read it! My feelings were pretty continuously shifting over the course of the novel, and I found myself at times deeply unsettled, apprehensive, empathetic, disgusted, and uncertain - to name just a few. There was a moment when I considered stopping and looking up the synopsis to spare myself the convoluted emotions, but I’m glad that I saw it through; I think the book does its subject matter justice in the end, and left me feeling far more settled than I anticipated. Definitely haven’t read another book quite like it before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Self harm

Minor: Suicide and Panic attacks/disorders

markedwithanm's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

aardwyrm's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It's fun to read, and the genre is full of works that are great atmosphere 90% of the way through and then don't stick the landing. If you just want spooky eeriness, it's not a bad choice. It's just ultimately got nothing it's actually about. The setup seems to promise a situation where lots of cliche genre stuff seems to be true, and then the big twist is all the cliche stuff is in fact true, just obfuscated. It's definitely going for twisty and intricate, but a twist and just changing the story partway through aren't really the same thing. Exactly the sort of book I think ought to have a warning sticker you can optionally peek under so you can know before you get invested if the supernatural is just a bad metaphor. When the big reveal is nothing interesting has really happened, then it's hard to care about what comes before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Classism, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Murder, Self harm, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Animal death, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

carolyn_baird_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Alcohol, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Death

bibrarian_'s review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Child death, and Medical content

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Medical trauma

Minor: Medical content

wackly93's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Torture, Death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Blood, Confinement, Medical trauma, and Medical content

cinthiaurora's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

A very weird book. Will add more thoughts to this review later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Stalking

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Alcohol, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Blood, Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death