Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Die Spiegelreisende Band 4 - Im Sturm der Echos by Christelle Dabos

10 reviews

dijon_supply's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Dysphoria

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

a_islandcriptid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

pobi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

Not as enjoyable as the others. Maybe I'm too tiny brain but the plot thickened a little too much for my tastes. The pacing also felt a little stop and start, with the final few chapters having EVERYTHING and lots of the earlier ones really dragging. Still enjoyed it though!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia

klee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Medical trauma

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: War

chloenrogers's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Hated this ending I’m so sorry. They deserved better 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical trauma, and War

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I loved the mirror visitor quartet, and am sad to say goodbye to Ophelia, Thorn, and the rest of the amazing characters.
Although this book could be confusing at times, the world building, gentle love story, and found family is truly remarkable! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

5aru's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

I wanted so badly to love this conclusion... but there is a huge pacing issue between this book and the previous one. It felt like these super complex, interweaving plotlines that had taken entire chapters (sometimes entire books!) to set up were resolved extremely quickly, so that the events - when they happened - weren't as emotionally gripping or even shocking at all. Dabos abuses devices until it gets to a point where you expect the plot twist to come from somewhere, which deprives it of any effect entirely.

It really bothers me, because I really enjoyed the rest of the series, even as it got increasingly weirder and more complex. I kind of wish Dabos had stuck with the arranged marriage/forced adaption to a hostile environment plotline and kept it simpler.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Forced institutionalization

grimmdark's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

MY PHONE GLITCHED AND ERASED THE ENTIRE REVIEW FOR THIS I JUST WROTE. i guess i'll have to come back in the morning because i'm not typing all of that again at 3 am. really satisfied to have finally finished this series tho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Infertility, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, and Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Dementia, Stalking, Abandonment, and War

jmatsumura's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

so disappointed by this finale

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment

begentile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

Esse simplesmente não pode ser o final. Eu não estou pronta. 
Há tanto a se falar sobre essa série em geral, mas esse último livro me virou e desvirou do avesso tantas vezes que agora eu tenho certeza de que existirá sempre um pouco de Ophelie em mim. E gosto de acreditar que existe um pouco de mim em Ophelie também. A passa-espelhos é um romance sobre a manipulação da memória coletiva e sobre o apagamento da história, mas esse pano de fundo é tão sutil que é fácil esquece-lo as vezes. Nesse último livro, chegamos ao final épico em que todas as peças se encaixam e todas as respostas são colocadas na mesa, mas é tudo mais complicado e envolvente do que qualquer um de nós poderíamos ter imaginado. 
Eu agradeço mil vezes a oportunidade de ter conhecido esse mundo cheio de falhas e conflitos, de ter viajado ao Polo, resolvido mistérios no Luz da Lua, estudado em Babel e de ter virado do avesso em meio a essa tempestade de Ecos. Obrigada Christelle Dabos, por essa história que vai ecoar sempre na minha história. Que possamos todos ter a coragem e a resiliência de uma passa-espelhos.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, and War