Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

22 reviews

jonesen2's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

very dark and depressing, <deals with lots of disease and death>, very historical which I found fascinating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

cmbohn's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

Mentions of a fictional pandemic in 2014, detailed depiction of a deadly flu outbreak and of the bubonic plague

echellwig's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

First Time Historians book. Follows a woman traveling back in time to study lives of people in the middle ages. Gripping, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Extensive descriptions of disease

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Car accident, Murder, and Pregnancy

liormaleficent's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Medical content

gdpaters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

problemsdog's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective 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: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

olivia_piepmeier's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I'm not sure if I would have picked this up right now, knowing it focused on an epidemic and

the black death

, never the less, I inhaled this. Like, insert gif of bear leaping out of swimming pool with "WHAT YEAR IS IT." Willis is such a compelling writer in terms of action. I really liked Blackout/All Clear and just thinking of that Oxford Time Travel world is what led me to want to read this. The scifi behind how time travel works in this world is fascinating. I do think Willis tends to over-write character's internal thoughts, but I still found it page turning because I just had to know how it worked out. I'll read all of the Oxford Time Travel-related books!

I partially think this was so compelling because all the quarantine/PPE talk was so familiar, which is a bit masochistic of me. It's stunning how little bits of the epidemic life came true, this being written in 1992: there was a pandemic, in this world, in 2014; people immediately came up with conspiracy theories about how it started; some people started calling it "*insert assumed nationality of first person who got it* virus"; people not wearing masks. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Alcohol

derschnauzbart's review against another edition

challenging sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Medical content