miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
‘Even through the walls of the room, the surgeon could feel the pressure of the heavy sky, and of everything beyond it.’
‘Why was it so difficult for him to express true gratitude, to speak freely, perhaps even let his eyes water at this earnestness?’
‘Perhaps that was why one died: so that one could finally fathom death.’
‘Somehow the prospect of the afterlife seemed to cause the surgeon less distress than he felt it should. Perhaps if he were less drained, the ghastliness of it might have overwhelmed him. But now, in this little room, surrounded by the apparatus of this mortal world, one of which was a prepared bed, the afterlife seemed like a distant calamity, to be confronted at a later, mercifully unspecified, date.’
Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Body horror, Medical content, Death, Child death, Pregnancy, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Grief
dorothygrace's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, and Murder
menomica's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
“God is as hidden to the dead as He is to the living.”
Well, this book made me confront my own mortality and ponder what happens after death and what the afterlife is life (if there is one). So uhm, there’s that.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Murder, and Gore
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Suicide
angrybookworm's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
I highly recommend this book. It moves a bit slow sometimes and it can be a little creepy if you don't like medical procedures but it was so thought provoking and interesting the whole time.
Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Death, Murder, Medical content, and Medical trauma
dasha_musa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
I saw a different review in which someone suggested that perhaps this would have been better as a short story and I think that I agree.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Medical content
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Murder and Pregnancy
astroem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Medical content
Moderate: Blood, Body horror, and Grief
Minor: Sexual violence
sarahch15'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
4.0
Graphic: Child death
yavin_iv's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Child death, Murder, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Violence