Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Centaur's Wife by Amanda Leduc

5 reviews

erinbrenner's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury

mollyrook's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I was intrigued by this book, but I didn’t ever really connect with it. I didn’t really buy any of the relationships in the book, and I didn’t think it ended up anywhere particularly satisfying. I did really like the fairy tales woven throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

Almost everyone dies at the start of the book. Pregnancy is a big theme, and Heather’s twin babies die horribly during the book.

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Terminal illness, Medical content

Minor: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury

for_esme_with_love's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Leduc weaves a mesmerizing fairytale around the nagging feeling that the very ground beneath us wishes humankind would go extinct. This book has an incredible concept with intriguing characters and strong dis/ability themes. Like many fairytales, The Centaur's Wife gets GRIM and I got stuck around the middle point when the characters were being put through a very slow descent into misery. I had to put it down for a few weeks. When I did pick it up again the book did have a strong ending, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to the right person!

(I don't have fully formed thoughts on this but I feel like there is something about indigeneity that is missing from this book. Curious to see if there are any takes on this.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Bullying, Violence, Abortion

Not a fluffy read!!!

katmanica's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy