Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Nix by Nathan Hill

4 reviews

uhh_sydney's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, Grief, Infidelity, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cursing, Outing, and Rape

e1oise's review

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

it all comes together in the end - so satisfying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Drug use, Violence, Medical content, Abortion, Misogyny, Abandonment, Sexual content, Sexism, and Child abuse

deirdrelk's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

This book is deceptively good. It tells the story of pain, loss and redemption across generations with humor and grace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Abandonment, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Child abuse, Dementia, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pedophilia

laurenwerlinger's review

challenging dark emotional funny slow-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? Yes

4.5

Nathan Hill writes with meticulous, almost extreme detail, a feature of his writing style that is mostly engaging and addictive but sometimes becomes a slog to read through. This book easily could have been one or two hundred pages shorter. However, the majority of the reading experience was a good one. 

Difficult topics are covered with both care and brutal honesty. Every nook and cranny of each character's pathetic, awful life is exposed, and I found myself not really liking them very much, but relating to them heavily. 

The way the multigenerational narrative is told is effective. Hill portrays the cycle of trauma very well.

The Nix is sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, and always spot-on with its observations about human nature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Rape

Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual content