Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

7 reviews

cato_o's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

sadiaa's review against another edition

emotional sad

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

4.75

Khaled hosseini is one of my favourite authors, I have read everything he's put out. He masterfully creates emotional stories that put the Afghan people at the forefront, showing us their culture and ways of life.
I love that the book had multiple povs, I found each story engaging. However I found that there were almost too many different stories intersecting, anytime a pov started I would get into it and then suddenly the pov changed and we don't get to hear about what happens next. I was listening to the audiobook and when the povs changed, I found myself listening and trying to figure out who's pov it was. Took me out of the story a little.

The ending is bittersweet,

Abdullah and Paris find each other, but Abdullah has succumbed to dementia and doesn't recognise her

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

ginbat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hosseini's writing always has a poetic feeling to it, I would say this book is of course more "enjoyable" than The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns if only because our characters are not subject to the same amount of violence. This story is more.. Floaty? The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that the ending feels too much like ATSS.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Child death

Adoption trauma

odyssia's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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

4.5

A brilliantly crafted book, drawing together different strands to build a story with two siblings from Afghanistan at its core. I found every strand interesting in isolation and each helped to understand a different aspect of the whole story, including the reasons behind certain characters' actions and mentalities. Moving without being excessively tragic with little flourishes that added tenderness.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Abortion, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

miamcmillan's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

i started crying at page 54 and then i just couldn’t stop everything hosseini writes is utterly beautiful. i loved all the stories and how they wove into one another, i loved the exploration of youth and age and family and love. i can’t get over the way everything intertwines i feel like i’ve been given a gift but i’ve also been devastated.

the bit with adel was so well done but i feel is slightly lost just because of the magnitude of the main stories like you read it from the child’s perspective but you recognise the truth that his father’s a war criminal and his acceptance of his own acceptance of it if that makes sense it was absolutely agonising

i loved everything about it i feel like rereading it again immediately i just can’t stop thinking about it. just amazing and sensitive and brutal and everything under the sun i want to say thank u to khaled hosseini for writing this book tbh <3 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, and War

faizoo's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and War