Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Projeto Lakewood by Megan Giddings

86 reviews

liter_aly's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racism, Torture, and Medical trauma

newyork_lilt's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

tales_told_in_gold's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Cancer and Grief

emequalsme's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Racism and Murder

bonnie3088's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This book was great!! It's not only thought provoking and incredibly addictive. 
It has many layers on how interconnected a person's identifiers are to how thwy are treated in the US.

This book offers a great commentary on women, racism, and class issues pertaining to Healthcare. 

A lot of the reviews on this book seem harsh, and I am here to stand on the premise that they are either not fully digesting the information or choose to critique with a distorted lens just because they can. 

I loved how creepy and detailed the scenes were. Especially how the narrative shifts based on the MC own mental state. The whole book felt like a fever dream which is the point. The constant guessing was balanced by the MC's mother who stood as the grounding force for the whole piece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Drug use, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Classism

seethinglloron's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

I've been crying for an hour, since I reached part two. I am trying to act nornal in my plane seat right now.

I have read a lot of shocking, gory, surreal, unsettling literature. I love shit that makes me want to turn away, to cringe, to stand up and walk away. I have never been so nauseous that I had to stop reading a book and watch a youtube video to take my mind off what I'd just read. I only do that when I wake up from nightmares where I'm being chased by unnaturally large spiders, or where there are bees so deep in my ears that those hoes are in my g-ddamn brain. This was incredible, and no one in my life can read it because reading this means knowing that Giddings has a industrial-size drill, and this novel aims right for the pupil and makes you watch in the mirror as it pushes and pushes, veins popping out with the strain. I forgot where I was while reading it. I felt my stomach turn over at the mundane cruelty of it, the terror of looking down the barrel of something evil that asks, would you tolerate what I can do to you if it meant you would be safe, happy, and fed for the rest of your life?

I shocked myself with how fast I started to cry when the main character described the vacations she wanted to take her ailing mother on in France. I couldn't read the screen with how watery my eyes got as she watched the video on the tablet in the cabin. I felt fear. Real, honest-to-YHWH fear. This novel should be taught in schools, in college. This should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in learning about American history of medicine, of anti-Black racism, of governmental power, of how Americans consider class, of psychology as a created industry, of what the mind does when put under primal pressure in a postmodern world.

 

Beautiful prose. Babies screaming like melted glass, foaming lakes, nights as creatures. 

I don't know what else to say. Don't read this in public. Hold your loved ones tight. Don't drink anything you didn't watch be poured. Don't trust anyone in a labcoat. Read this yesterday.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death

thissagreads's review against another edition

Honestly after 3 hours, I STILL couldn’t get invested, because the entire story is too disjointed to make any sense. Very frustrating since I was looking forward to this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism and Medical trauma

_egg_wash's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Excrement, and Vomit

snazzy10101's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? No

3.0

I’m probably too stupid for this book. I loved the commentary about the very real history of medical experimentation on Black people (especially women) in America, but the narrative style was over my head. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, and Chronic illness