Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Loop by Ben Oliver, Ben Oliver

3 reviews

dandelionsteph's review against another edition

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness and Fire/Fire injury

Technically, it's

soldiers, not police officers

which

pick off any survivors of the initial apocalyptic event

, but the "marshals" which take the protagonists away are clearly terrible people, giving him mere minutes for a trial, so I'll count it as this element anyway. The "mass shootings" isn't in the context of a lone gunman or a small squad of gunmen, and is more similar to the context of war or domestic insurgency, but it's similar enough to an open-air mass shooting that I'll count it as one. The terminal illness is a

"mystery flu", rather than a real-life terminal illness or one conventionally similar to a terminal illness, but, functionally, it might as well be a terminal illness, because it's very rare and the characters cannot afford its extremely expensive cure.

The "car accident" element is a flying car that was hijacked, and the characters crash-landed it rather than have it go back to their enemies. Still, it's close enough.

rachel_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

charlottesomewhere's review against another edition

medium-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

The Loop is everything I love about dystopian fiction. I was drawn straight into these characters and their lives. I loved the friendships that developed and I am intrigued to see where this series goes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Murder