Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

At The End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp

7 reviews

muckl3t83's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

This book is pretty boring. Not much happens. The plague is basically a worse form of covid and most of the book takes place in the same location with the same characters sitting around doing nothing except getting sick and slowly running out of food. There’s no good reason given why a bunch of kids were abandoned when there is still a working government, internet, electricity, & phones. 

The characters were ok. I didn’t hate them. I liked the chapters that followed the non-verbal character the most. That was an actually interesting angle and I would have preferred the whole book to focus more on that character and her challenges. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

amesnotamy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

b3ck's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit, Medical content, and Outing

Minor: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts

laurennnn1066's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

betweentheshelves's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

If you're trying to stay away from anything that feels like the COVID pandemic, I'd recommend probably not picking this one up. While this is about a plague rather than a pandemic, a lot of the events feel very similar to what happened at the beginning of COVID. Things escalated much more quickly, too.

Anyway! I was expecting a more tense thriller kind of story with this one, and while those elements are there, it's more of a character driven story, focused on the teens in this detention center. Besides the plague and trying to survive, there's not much a plot driving the story. It's definitely the relationships and what transpires between this particular group of teens.

There's good representation here, with a variety of identities represented throughout the story. For the most part, I didn't necessarily feel emotionally invested in their story, but maybe that's because it felt too real? I can't quite put my finger on it. The descriptions of all of the measures they were taking against the plague, though, did feel very real. I did appreciate the world building and the extra pieces of news and information between the chapters. It helped build the intensity overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Deadnaming, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Also realistic descriptions of a pandemic

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging 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

This book now holds a special place in my heart

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Eugenics Imprisonment

childoflight's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Deadnaming, Sexual assault, and Transphobia