Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The One by John Marrs

23 reviews

leebeeloves's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

What a spectacular, brilliantly creative piece of writing. I couldn’t put it down and fell asleep reading it after keeping myself up way too late on a work night, that good. There are a multitude of storylines for varying characters and relationships, all centering around the universal “truth” that, in this world, there is one perfect match for everyone on earth and it’s genetically determined. Just send in a DNA sample and await your results. Simple, right? Far, far from it. Absolutely riveting, I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

Edited to add: this is sci-fi, and the science written here is obviously not sound. If you’ll be bothered by the scientific inaccuracies of the central element here then skip this, otherwise have fun pretending it’s real :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

komaedacoffee's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Yeeeesss

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Acephobia/Arophobia

marareading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.5

An amazing thriller! Imagine a company exists that has created a DNA match test to ensure that every person is matched with the ONE person on earth who is perfect for them, but only if you choose to find them. I'm this book there are multiple POVs. One of them is a serial killer. The twists had me floored. I was actually speechless. I will recommend this book from now on. I enjoyed it so much! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

reginahafner_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

tenasadie's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

jessicohen15's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

Loved this quick read! Once you catch onto the five different plot lines that don’t really intersect and keep them straight in your head - it took me 1/3 the way through to get a good rhythm - it’s an exciting page-turner until the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

taria's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

brittanystoess's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage and Medical trauma

t_higgsreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

4 Stars
CAWPILE = 7.29

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Infidelity and Kidnapping

Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Abortion