Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Outlawed by Anna North

58 reviews

chasingpages1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Blood, Mental illness, Abandonment, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Infertility, Gun violence, Misogyny, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Alcohol, Death, Infidelity, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Classism, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Violence, Animal death, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Cancer, Outing, and Gaslighting

moonvest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.5

GOTTA check those content warnings, folks!!

This is objectively a good book, but it was just more yucky than what I can handle right now. I was promised “lesbian cowboys” but it’s largely about child death and grief. Which is, you know, a trigger for me.

You’d probably like it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Violence, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abortion, Death, Grief, Incest, and Infertility

Minor: Animal death

kayschwe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Blood, Murder, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Death, Pregnancy, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Excrement

lovejasmine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

The biggest problem with this book is that it could have been so much better than it was. It could have been so inclusive and intersectional and diverse, and could have been a beautiful, in depth story of marginalised people coming together in a world that hates them.

Instead, we got the barest hint of that, with a very self centred, very white narrator that was, honestly, kind of boring.

The worst thing about this book was it wasn't bad. It just could have been incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Abortion, Blood, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Violence, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Animal death, and Chronic illness

emilyhunterr's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Infertility, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death, Blood, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

olivia_piepmeier's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring fast-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? No

4.0

A troubling world, but North doesn't delve into the unpleasant parts. It felt adventurous with the right amount of challenging to not be disturbing. A fun mix of Wild West with alternative history and gender issues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical trauma

madisonrhoff's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Not a read I would usually go for but I was pleasantly impressed. A feminist western novel works better than you would think. I love the female relationships that are explored in this book. Ada is a great narrator of the story and I love her inner monologue throughout the plot. There is a lot of backlash online about the queer and racial relationships in the book. I agree and disagree with some parts. This book is supposed to take place in the 1800s, which is important context. The racial and queer themes are not far off from what white europeans believed at the time, but I do think an opportunity was missed to explore them to a greater extent and showcase what “could’ve been”. Also wish there were more indigenous poc considering this all takes place in the southwest US. My rating is in terms of how I enjoyed the book while reading, but I do have criticism upon reflection.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical trauma

ripxw's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Infertility, Medical content, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Terminal illness, Death, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

theologize's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion

hope_gabrielle_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility and Abortion

Minor: Grief, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Racism, Death, Dysphoria, Suicide attempt, Violence, Miscarriage, Self harm, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Mental illness, and Medical trauma