Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

5 reviews

regnistegra's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

liltakeawaygirl's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Abandonment

vbarsi's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Reminds me of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - tense, eerie, learning about strangers through the narrator and discovering a town’s secret’s. I appreciated the change in perspective in narrator. Well written and flowed nicely. Depressing read though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Infertility, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Abortion

elysianbud's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Very prettily written with some lovely turns of phrase. Eerie atmosphere. Predictable plot, but I think that's the point--it's tragic, you know how it ends because it tells you near the beginning, the interest is how they get to that conclusion. Characters are not nice people at all though, makes it very hard to care about them. 
Short, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kimberleydawn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Devastating but doesn’t leave you depressed. Hopefully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail