Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

65 reviews

____emily____'s review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Abortion, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

themediocrebard's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Cancer, Gore, Medical trauma, Abortion, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcoholism

Minor: Eating disorder and Suicide

stacy837's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Grief, Blood, Abortion, Cursing, Death of parent, and Cancer

mel_odramatics's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

foreverinastory's review

mysterious reflective 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

This was a fun murder mystery!

Rep: white female MC (I think Ivy is queer but I'm uncertain), BIPOC bisexual male love interest, several lesbian female side characters, pansexual female side character, BIPOC female side character.

CWs: Body horror, abortion, cancer, gore, blood, death, murder, medical trauma, medical content, grief, past death of parent, alcoholism, alcohol consumption, terminal illness, bullying, emotional abuse, violence, mentions of past pregnancy that was terminated, vomit, gaslighting, toxic friendship, injury/injury detail, sexual content. Moderate: eating disorder and mention of weight checks, cursing, mention of past adult/minor relationship, panic attack, suicide, sexual harassment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Grief, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Cursing

arynapril's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book. I loved the strong prose and unique imagery that pushed into my brain. I'm going to be thinking about this book for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Medical trauma, and Vomit

my_forest_library's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Moderate: Body horror

taryn_evelyn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Gore

lily1304's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

4.25

I got so invested in this story so fast! Ivy is a funny and sympathetic narrator, and the mystery was juuuuust the right level of difficulty. I couldn't figure it all out on my own, but I might have if I had taken notes. But it's not just a mystery, it also gave me feelings??

Yeah, it takes place at a boarding school for magical teens, but it's definitely not Harry Potter.

I would have rated it higher, except I feel like it has low reread-value - but the first read was SO fun!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Gore, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

lexa's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

A great fantasy book for people who don’t read fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Medical trauma, and Lesbophobia