Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

13 reviews

potassiumk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

megstro's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Abortion, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

yarm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad 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

4.5

A very interesting story based on history of a real village that voluntarily isolated itself to prevent the spread of the plague to other villages. Very  I pressed that even though this book was written before COVID pandemic, so many of the strategies used to prevent spread of the bacteria in 1665, were used to prevent spread of Coronavirus in early 2020s. Interesting also was that the mental health impact and social consequences similar. Has the human race changed much?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, and Medical content

minniepauline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This is a fascinating exploration of how fear changes people and societies. It’s prescient, too. Written in 2001, it’s an apt book for our own times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

melissamalicious's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

mblanke's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad tense medium-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? No

4.0

"I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders."

This took such a wild left turn at the end that I kind of forgot everything I was going to say about it. It felt like for most of the book (well-written) trauma porn about the plague and how men make everything harder for women, and then there was just...that last 25%! Huh! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Abortion, and Classism

jnkay01's review

dark reflective tense medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Medical content, and Pregnancy

rld1727's review against another edition

2.75

This book was a weird ride. I didn’t love it, but I stuck around because I had read reviews of how the plot goes kind of haywire later on in the book - it does, indeed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

kelseak96's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Torture, Abortion, and Death of parent