Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The One by Kiera Cass

6 reviews

reesespuff6's review against another edition

lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, Death, and War

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Medical content, Torture, War, Blood, Body horror, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Child abuse, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

bookswstella's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

I loved it!!

 
I hate Kiera Cass for killing America’s father, the Queen, Anne, I never thought in the beginning of the series that I would be upset that Celeste got killed but I am because in the end, I kind of liked her. 

I cried during the whole epilogue but the books was so good and I didn’t want it to end😭😭 Just when I had stopped crying I starter’s crying again over something. I cried when everyone but Celeste were there, but the thing that made me cry the most was when Aspen was escorting her to the alter😭😭

I still love the characters, I did get very angry at both Maxon and America several times because both of them has such a temperament, especially in the end were Maxon was really really cold to America just because she had talked with Aspen (maybe a little bit more intimate that normal but not so much that Maxon should not marry America) and then three seconds later when he was about to die and all of that he told her he couldn’t live without her and that he loved her. But I know, moodswings.

I was never worried “for real” because the book is about America and Maxon so it is obvious that they will end up together<3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Violence, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Medical trauma

braelynm_22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

Maxon is legit what I want in a guy. I have mixed emotions about Aspen, but I'm happy with the way that it worked out in the end. Definitely a HUGE plot twist towards the end and it became very tense for a few chapters. "I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that." Omg sooo cute! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual content, and Classism

Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and War

Don't read if fighting and blood causes uncomforted. Some parts can be graphic, but it's not too bad.

lisa_m's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

I did it! I finished the Selection Series!
Yes, I know that there are even more books about before the Selection and after the Selection and who knows.. maybe I will read them one day but right now I think I'm done with this series. In a good way though!

I enjoyed the ending and I liked it even though I still believe that this series could have been way shorter and it obviously has many flaws. The world building was weak and there are many plot holes. Many things are never really explained and some parts if the story are not well thought through.

It's definitely not a masterpiece but that did not make me enjoy it less. It felt old and made me feel kind of nostalgic even though I have never read it before. I liked it and it was a cute enough romance.

My rating is 4 stars even though rationally it is not as good as most other books I have rated 4 stars but since I did enjoy it I don't want to give it less.
 

I still don't particularly care about all the characters and I thought it was really strange how the author just killed so many off for plot convenience in the end.
Maxon needed to be king so obviously his parents die, Anne had a crush on Aspen but he chose Mary so obviously she dies and Celeste was a bad person and even though she is now redeemed she still has to pay for what she did and dies.
I guess I just wish America was a bit more independent and not so much a 'not-like-other-girls' girl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

theoriginalkidinthecorner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexual content, and Blood