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trippalli's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
A dark story with a layer of hopeful icing, this story is well written but disturbing. I felt it was a Frankenstein redux, a family is killed by viscous robbers stealing from then then stabbing them all to death... But we meet them later, dead but animated in a night medical theatre hosted by an eccentric ut driven surgeon who had some success it seems or was told he would if he stitched them up in night surgery they might come back to life with the dawn..a philosophical book with layers of darkness and coping with death mortality and wanting to live and save ones family, regrets, hopes and desperation.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
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
4.5
Very gorey and kinda gross but really well written
‘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.’
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy
angrybookworm's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-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
4.75
I wasn't sure how I felt about this book until I got to the end, and then I loved it but was also a bit confused by it. It definitely has me thinking about my own mortality and what it really means to be alive. It also taught me a lot about Indian culture in a really organic way that I loved. I had so many tabs and annotations of things I'd heard of but hadn't really read about in context or in a day to day life kind of setting - so that was really great, even if it wasn't the point of the book. Growing up Catholic-ish, I knew a lot of people that questioned the existence of god or the afterlife but until this book I never really knew whether people in other religions had the same questions or hesitations and it was so captivating to see the parallels between my life and religion and someone else's.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder
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