Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson

9 reviews

ru_th's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Everything is irrelevant. 
Everything is important. 
Everything is important, until it is irrelevant. 
Breathe in. Breathe out. Until you cannot. 
Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost. I have saved what I can, so you will understand what we have become. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Body horror, War, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Homophobia, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Torture

seaweed's review

You Feel It Just Below The Ribs took me 3 weeks to finish, despite low page count and easy sentence structure, because it was boring, unnecessary and not particularly well-written (very quotable though! hooray for that). 

If you have not familiar with the podcast Within The Wires, there is a chance you could enjoy it, since everything will be new information to you. 

If you are a fan of the podcast, don't waste your time. I can guarantee that whatever you imagined about its world will be ten times more interesting than what the team chose to commit to. It feels as if the authors had a couple of ideas (already implemented inside the podcast) and thought to themselves: hm, can we squeeze a book out of this without bringing anything new or original to the table? - and then proceeded to do exactly that. There is one function it could serve - as a timeline, and a subpar one at that, since this fictional memoir barely uses dates. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

kb_icarus3's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Death, Police brutality, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and War

aimnorth's review

dark mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, War, and Medical content

littlehibou7's review

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Confinement, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Child death, and Forced institutionalization

cheye13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Confinement

Minor: Gun violence and Gore

fungivibes's review

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Medical trauma, Torture, and Medical content

breq's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-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? Yes

5.0

Terrifying and fascinating, and kept me guessing if it was an unreliable narrator, an unreliable annotator, both, or neither.  I love this style of fake history/memoir with multiple people contributing.  I choose to believe that

Spoiler

the publisher/annotator's constant reinforcement that this is fake and made up and of COURSE defamatory and NO ONE should believe this is in fact a complete CYA and they in fact agree in many places with the narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy and War

nulliusmomenti's review

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Violence