Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

36 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery

caitlin_bookchats's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Racism, Medical content, Cannibalism, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Colonisation

This book contains the most gruesome description of scurvy I have ever read. Also, cw: survival cannibalism, animal death

the men kill and eat a pet dog

mcbrantley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

4.0

Well handled and harrowing, this narrative take on a true 18th century shipwreck and mutiny is a riveting read after the first half. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

rebleejen's review against another edition

adventurous informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Great story, but it does make me never want to get on a boat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

3.75

It was a very interesting and compelling story. It definitely helped that he focused on some of the main characters who had told their stories in books. I enjoyed it a lot. 

“You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.”

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child death, Racism, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation

beistelltischchen's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Medical content

laura_nel13's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

hannahbee_97's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

Really well done telling of the event from a wide variety of perspectives! I also loved the narrator’s voice!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death

waterlogged's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Cannibalism

Moderate: Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Trafficking and Sexual harassment