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aaronreadsatad's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Car accident
Moderate: Ableism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
amydeppe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, and Car accident
Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, and Medical trauma
Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy
mzmymt89's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content
fernash's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, Car accident, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy
Pedophilia tag for mention in joke, no pedophilia actually occurs.kaz_brekkerrr's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Vomit
zoejjj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Nobody in this book is hateable. Not even Sara. She is written as an incredibly driven woman who will stop at nothing to save her daughter. Unfortunately her other kids get forgotten in the process but she regrets, she makes it right. “This is her pond but my lily pads”? Shaving her head for Kate? Honestly Jesse got the wayyyy short end of the straw but he also almost killed someone.
The ending is… so so.
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content and Vomit
thebowandthebook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief
ellen_2023's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Car accident
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Sexual content
sanjana_the_book_station's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
seawarrior's review against another edition
2.0
I also felt that Picoult shied away from fully exploring the situation Anna was in. By making her subservient to her parents and a willing participant in the surgeries she was born to endure, Picoult never has to stare down the true horror of Anna's life.
Unfortunately I did not feel that the additional protagonists were written well either. It felt to me that Picoult stretched herself too thin, and managed to create characters who represented problems that needed to be solved within her narrative, but not much more. Though each character had different perspectives, most noticeably defined by their fields of study or past life experiences, their voices were not dissimilar and I didn't think they possessed the true complexity of human beings. I will say that Picoult's story was engaging, and seemed to have been researched well; yet I am not an expert in medicine, law, astronomy, fire science or any other topics Picoult needed factual support to make a part of her story. I would recommend this book to others who are interested in children's rights in the medical field, although do not expect the book to be too revolutionary, as I did. Instead it provides a starter for questioning the way we undermine children's consent in medicine, and ends with vague assertions that are ultimately meaningless for Anna.
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Excrement and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, and Alcohol