Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera

24 reviews

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Grief, Homophobia, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

kim_lommaert's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Death of parent, Murder, Chronic illness, Outing, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Car accident, Medical trauma, and Medical content

quinniantheduck's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Terminal illness, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

teslis's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

3.5

I really loved the first book when I read it last year, but sadly this one didn’t blew me away. 

I do think Silvera’s language is quite easy which is something I liked last time, but now it just felt flat (?). I think the characters speech and actions feels unreal, but I do really like the plot and the thing with one of them dying. 

I just had higher expectations and they weren’t meet.

I have both books from “the infinity son” which I’m planning to read but be will see. 

Took me 9 hours and 48 minutes 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Death, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Abandonment, Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

carsonedfors's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Blood, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Grief, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Medical trauma, and Mass/school shootings

4riareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Physical abuse

dirtyseagull's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective 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

4.25

So here's the thing about this book, its a great follow up to the first in the "Series" as it were, because even though its a prequel its main focus for most the story is the world building and establishing what kind of New York these characters are living in and subsequently, dying in. 

Not really a spoiler, its in the title. 

But here are some very minor spoilers if you wanna keep reading. You are getting a lot of the same here as you did in the first novel, just longer. There's backstory, more world-building, and a shit ton of callbacks to the first novel (and little easter eggs) which give context for who these characters were that were either mentioned or featured in the first story. 

These mostly work in service of the novel but sometimes feel like they are just kinda cameos for the sake of cameos and they could have been cut down or cut out. The only other thing that really makes me think that this could have been better is that the story itself, while different and heart wrenching feels far less emotionally powerful to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug use, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Child death, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

pippamillerxoxo_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Murder, Violence, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Death

rebeccabryson21's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was heartbreaking good, I can’t even out into words how much I loved this. 

Ten out of ten 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Murder, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Blood

besotted's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Minor: Medical trauma, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood