Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin

19 reviews

thebacklistbook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-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

4.0

 This book deals with heavy themes. Suicide, discrimination, sexual harassment, and addiction.

Georgia is a urologist in the south. She is fiercely independent, a fact her bosses hate, and her best friend Jonah loves. When one of their careers is on the line Georgia struggles with making the right decisions...

This book while heavy is also a very compelling read. This is the author's second novel. It reads like the author has been writing about these characters for decades. The only thing that slowed me down at all was receiving another book on hold from the library. Kimmery Martin is definitely on my auto request list.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

maddiela's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-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

Enjoyed this book way more than I thought! I really loved and admired the two main characters and I was rooting for them throughout the entire book. There was a little too much religion talk for me to give this a full 5 stars but besides that I would recommend to anyone who likes medical drama storylines that relate to current events in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cancer

gellyreads's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I really enjoy this cast of characters. I know I struggled to connect to this partially because of my own bias against doctors. I also wish, even though this is something that would happen, this didn't have to go into

sexual assault

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug abuse

jblair418's review against another edition

emotional funny tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

imustich's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Transphobia

eknuts17's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

sooz_767's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

This starts as out as a story about doctors in a clinic who decide they will no longer treat trans patients and the reactions/fall out from this, but we quickly become attached to Georgia and especially Jonah as various events unfold.

I really love the authors writing style and wit, it's so easy to just float along with the characters and story, however I do think this one slightly lost its way towards the end. The plot got a bit convoluted and ended up far from the original focus. I also don't think we needed Marks chapters (or Donovans for that matter). Just one POV would be fine for the whole story, especially as we didn't get Jonahs which would have been amazing.

Overall I did enjoy this but think I preferred Queen of Hearts a little more. And definitely looking forward to reading Doctors and Friends!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

burnourhistory's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Transphobia, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, and Blood

backyardroses's review against another edition

funny medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt