Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann

4 reviews

scifi_rat's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

talonsontypewriters's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, Gun violence, Self harm, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, Stalking, and War

mar's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

YES YES YES YES YES YES

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Self harm, Torture, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Body horror

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• 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

I really enjoyed this book. The characters live in a world of AI gods and their agents, cybernetically enhanced human "angels". The main character is a physicist who is thrown into a world of plots, counterplots and Lovecraftian horrors after an energy source she creates destroys a space station. Rather than being immediately executed as a heretic, she is pressed into service to locate her mentor, the source of the equations that led to the disaster.

I wouldn't call most of the characters "likable" per se, but they were interesting and dynamic. (Though unfortunately I found the love interest kind of bland) The horrors that Yasira comes into contact with are described in an engaging way and it’s interesting to see her thought process changing over time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Kidnapping

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Genocide, and Stalking