Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

3 reviews

kateapatton's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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cayv97's review

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This book brought graphic and disturbing to a whole new level. As a big fan of thrillers and psychological thrillers, I could not finish based off of how creepy and wrong this book felt. Would definitely not recommend. 
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butyougotmysoul's review

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challenging dark tense slow-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

2.75

This book was supplied to me as an ARC from Netgalley.  

I'm of two minds with this book.  I feel like it relies on some tropes that I really didn't appreciate such as mental health being to blame for severe character flaws,
but then that turns around in the last two-ish chapters.  For me as a reader with mental health issues I would have liked to see some other explanation.
  I don't know.  Maybe with time this book will grow on me, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.  The casual fatphobia littered throughout also did not do this book any favors.
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