Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

23 reviews

_pauline's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No

3.5

I‘m glad I‘m not the only one who struggled to understand everything (judging by the other reviews)

I didn’t dislike it but I had higher hopes for it & it was just a lot of disaster & suffering (

esp towards the end, happening over & over again, getting worse each time

) + confusing at times

also

if everyone remembers everything - including US retaliation -, wouldn’t they stop dropping atomic bombs after a few times? or am I being too optimistic here

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Mass/school shootings

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book has a really interesting premise and sci-fi twist, which it promptly proceeds to squander through lackluster characters and a bloated, complicated plot. Unfortunately it feels like it’ll join the ranks of scifi books that were almost good enough for me to remember, but not quite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Dementia, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Cancer, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Most of the self-harm serves an in-story purpose, rather than being the result of mental illness. Additional CWs for extreme depictions of life under nuclear attack and trauma when faced with an apocalyptic scenario.

lavinia_speaks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

andrearahman's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

Incredible. Wondrous. Tense. Horrific. Brain-melting. Impossible to put down. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Suicide, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Dementia, Grief, and Mass/school shootings

ursiform's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

schnaucl's review

adventurous dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

I enjoyed it. 

It has an interesting twist on time travel and the love story is lovely, even if it's also tragic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

midalias's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

First I was intrigued. Then fascinated and subsequently shocked (honestly horrified). And finally I cried and felt like I was listening to a friend talking about life. 

 

Notes: 

- I bought Kindle book and borrowed the audiobook from Libby 

- I enjoyed the audiobook having male and female narrators. 

- To me this was not fast-paced as seen in Storygraph. It was medium-paced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Mass/school shootings and Death of parent

tungstenmouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This highly cinematic novel definitely has highs and lows. It’s a fascinating exploration of the connection between time and memory. For a long time I was completely riveted by this but I hit a wall at the 75% mark. One of the main issues the book has is that set up takes so much time and the repetition (yes, that’s in the title but still) get old fast. I found myself almost forcing the reading through some bits. But the overall story is pretty amazing! It was definitely worth the read and I had a much better opinion by the end of the book. If you like movies and/or thrillers you will love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

katiefurms's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

such an incredible and thought provoking read. i really loved it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

tkibbee17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Enjoyable read, fast paced, very interesting concepts about time and memory and consciousness which I enjoyed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Domestic abuse