Reviews

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

becadii's review against another edition

4.0

Como ????, não sei se conseguirei viver sem ler a continuação, preciso ler a continuação para ontem. A protagonista tinha momentos que me fazia querer bater a cabeça na parede mas no geral o livro foi bom, no começo achei parado mas depois foi ficando muito muito bom

hdoomk's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

3.0

slight fantasy aspect? Good book tho, a lot of different storylines that all ended up connecting really well. gruesome at times tho with the descriptions of the surgeries.

so he’s not dead? but then if she didn’t take the solution too, then she’ll die and he’ll live on? guess thats why there is a sequel

no spice

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Pregnancy

clairemarquis's review against another edition

3.0

Good, dragged in the middle a bit but was great by the end. Also I personally feel like this was more of a well written fiction with love than an outright love story.

scijessreads's review against another edition

4.0

What starts as a story about a young woman trying to defy class and society expectations to be a surgeon in the 1800’s in Scotland becomes a bit more of a morality tale and a story of young love. Honestly, the love story here was tangential to the rest. Hazel is a powerhouse, learning how to just say f*@k it and go after what she truly wants. Jack is a good counterpoint, young and brash and an easy companion for Hazel as she works in the trenches to learn her craft. The depiction of early medicine is both fascinating and cringeworthy, as any depiction of the early days of medicine is. But in this story the pursuit of medical knowledge is tinged with a bit of the fantastical in the concept of immortality (tied to classism and the idea of who should get this sort of “honor”) developed by Dr. Beecham.

The ending was both bittersweet and a bit ambiguous, which I normally don’t love, but here works very much for the darker, gothic aspects of the story.

schlegellikebagel's review against another edition

3.0

I love gothic romance, but this was not my cup of tea. The foreshadowing was sometimes heavy handed and sometimes totally missing, felt like some pacing issues. I’ll read the sequel give it another chance!

viihpor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

rccas_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

rreads06's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing

4.75

ceri124's review against another edition

5.0

5*
Wow I really enjoyed this. I need to read the next book asap. I loved Hazel as a character, her and Jack were so cute together. I was expecting the book to be close to a normal historical fiction but it revealed aspects of magical realism towards the end and I love magical realism so much

jules_bee_10's review against another edition

5.0

Cute! I kinda liked the story. It was recommended by a friend of mine and I didn’t quite knew what to expect. I fell in love with Hazel pretty quickly and loved how the story progressed. A nice balance between historian and fantasy book ☺️