Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Wie Monde so silbern by Marissa Meyer

60 reviews

emiserable's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood and Car accident

madi_oasis's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

Re-reading one of my favourite young adult fairytale retelling series! I first picked this book up in high school, around 2013-2014, and loved it so much! 

The world-building and character writing is very good, and I really like the implications of the larger universe being fairly unknown at this point in the series. The reader knows enough about the overall universe without the book needing to lore-dump or go into lengthy exposition. 

Cinder’s character arch is really good, it takes her a long time to realise her potential, and she has to really work for it and grow as a character. The ending is a cliff-hanger

but still gives the feeling that Cinder is going to get out of the prison cell and find her way out of Levana’s grasp

.  I can’t wait to re-read the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Torture, and War

keylimeky's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

megnut's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

shriya_vn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

My god they put cinder through the wringer. I’ll keep reading the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

rwnhlfx's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Honestly, this book is really fun. I read it & the sequel for a class & I'm thinking about finishing the series on my own time. It does, however, lose a star due to some repetitive phrasing & Meyer's failure to portray an Asian culture in a respectful or believable way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Medical content

Minor: War

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This is such a cool modern (future, actually??) retelling of Cinderella. She is NOTHING like any Cinderella we've read or watched before. She is a mechnic with a good portion of her body being mechanical in and of itself. Meyer does a fantastic job creating interesting plot points that surprise the reader yet also point them to the original source material of Cinderella. Overall a quick-paced, clever book. I can't wait to read the next installments! The few issues I had with the book were just that it was a bit hard to get into at first, especially because some of the characters weren't as interesting as they could have been, and sometimes the word usage was odd, almost like she used the word adjacent to what she actually meant.

I don't include the audio performer in my overall star review, but I'd give Rebecca Soler 4/5. There isn't much to say outside of her performance falling a bit flat. It wasn't actively bad, but there wasn't enough excitement and variance in her narration to intrigue me; my inner reading dialogue is much more enthusiastic than her performance itself is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Those listed in "graphic" are central themes, although the ableism is more of metaphor (Cinder is a cyborg and treated poorly because of it) than a direct commentary. Moderate categories listed are related to the death of a loved one in the plot, a medical research focus due to the epidemic theme, and the aforementioned ordeal of Cinder being cyborg. "Minor" category items are straightforward and not too present in the book.

jadeandherbunny's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Self harm and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery and War

kal_el_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Gun violence

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Omg!! The Lunar Chronicles was one of my favorite series back in middle school and being able to reread it the way I’ve always planned too makes me so happy. I forgot how much I loved this book and feeling as though I’m reading it for the first time again makes me live it even more after all this time. If you’re looking for a thrilling, adventurous YA dystopian novel with a romantic side plot, Cinder is the book for you. 1000000% recommend !!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Violence, and Suicide attempt