Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

9 reviews

linneak's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical trauma, Blood, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical content, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

xta_07's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Mankind has discovered a powerful machine built by an ancient alien civilization. While we don’t understand what it is or how how it works, you better believe we’re gonna poke it to see what it does.

Action packed and tense, but still the authors are able to break large world changing problems down to the human level. What I truly loved about this book was it’s central theme of redemption, and what it truly might look like to forgive the unforgivable. While a bit boring when first introduced Pastor Anna’s character really shines at the end of this novel. I ended up highlighting entire paragraphs of her dialogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gore and Medical content

Minor: Racism and Alcoholism

jennaem27's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Medical content

Minor: Misogyny

iono's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Death, Murder, Police brutality, Grief, Body horror, Blood, War, and Medical content

Minor: Misogyny, Ableism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

skrulls's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore, Vomit, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

kerttuli's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Confinement, War, Ableism, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction and Racism

idksamiguess's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical content and Grief

futureofmydays's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Xenophobia, Violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, and Blood

Minor: Addiction

caryndi's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Book 3 of the Expanse once again has a host of new characters as humankind goes out to explore The Ring.  Anna was my favorite due to her optimistic viewpoint--and Tilly, of course, was fun as well.  In Melba, we also had (gasp!) a woman who was not hit on at any point...but don't worry, y'all, because she

Spoiler

was a would-be mass murderer,

so who would want that, amirite?

Though the book flirted with exploring the crew of the Rocinante's pasts, the most we got was a bit of confirmation about Amos that had been foreshadowed in book 2.  Despite Holden's intimate relationship with Naomi, he...still does not know anything about her past?  Kind of strange, especially given that they all know his--you'd think he would be the type of person to at least bring it up.

However, Abaddon's Gate goes harder on power struggles than emotional arcs, though Melba does have a bit of one.  I was a bit disappointed we didn't get any resolution with

Spoiler

her and Anna, as I thought they were going to have at least one more significant scene together when Anna saw her in the elevator at the end

.  There's also, of course, more to learn about the beings behind the protomolecule as well as the introduction of a Big Bad I assume we will be seeing more in the future.

Recommend? Yep, another fun, quick read!  Mind the content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Grief, Medical content, and Sexism