When Nat arrives on the island, she is clearly not welcome. She gets eerie vibes and feels she is being watched. Someone has been in the room assigned to her. She finds that Kit has become a part of a weird cult with strange rituals and disturbing group dynamics. The cult leader is a woman named Rebecca, and the aim is to bring distraught group members to their 'Maximized Self' through conquering fear and pain. Kit explains to her sister that she has never been happier and intends to remain on the island. She has gained status and prestige within the cult. The characters range from the bland to the easily manipulated and to the deranged. i also understand that everyone handles grief in different ways, and AK obviously uses humour, but i would have liked a little more seriousness in tone when talking about certain things. i think it would have made the reflections feel more genuine.

I am starting to realize that psychological thrillers just don’t work for me anymore. I found this story uneven, even annoying at times. I had no respect for any of the characters. The ending, in particular, really didn’t work for me. Some viewers considered the series to be an accurate depiction of life on a maternity ward, but others saw it as misogynistic. Harriet Sherwood for The Guardian reported that some viewers accused the series of depicting birth as traumatic, and women as disempowered, dysfunctional and reduced to "slabs of meat". [37] Milli Hill, author of The Positive Birth Book, and proponent of “alternate” birthing methods, accused Adam Kay and the creators of the show of sexism. Hill criticised the show for misogyny. [37] Some pregnant women reported on social media that they had been advised to avoid watching the show by their midwives. [37] Viewing figures [ edit ] a b c Kettle, Emilia (28 February 2022). "BBC: This Is Going To Hurt full cast list". Denbighshire Free Press . Retrieved 5 March 2022.

Reader Reviews

Ramachandran, Naman (28 March 2023). "Kate Winslet, Kit Connor, 'The Traitors' Among Winners at U.K.'s Royal Television Society Awards". Variety . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Anderton, Joe (23 August 2022). "Peaky Blinders and Heartstopper land major National TV Awards 2022 shortlist nominations". Digital Spy. ( Hearst Communications) . Retrieved 27 August 2022. a b c "Dame Harriet Walter to play Adam Kay's mum". Chortle. 24 June 2021 . Retrieved 24 June 2021. The story is fairly slow and there’s no real sense of dread or menace. At best I got the tiniest bit of creepy vibes, but nothing that had me on the edge of my seat.

From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters—one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies.Cooke, Rachel (8 February 2022). "BBC One's This Is Going To Hurt is cold, mean and – crucially – not funny". New Statesman . Retrieved 21 February 2022. Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer team up to exonerate a woman who’s already served five years for killing her ex-husband. In other areas though, this fell short of my expectations. The pace was quite uneven for me, with my interest level waxing and waning heavily throughout. By the end, I really couldn't be bothered to care anymore. With shades of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers, This Might Hurt is a tense psychological thriller with an eye towards larger themes.”— PureWow Dark, disturbing, and entertaining at times, I was enthralled by several of the characters, yet some of the storyline dragged a bit and left me a tad confused. Though I didn’t quite love this book as much as Stephanie Wrobel’s Darling Rose Gold, I enjoyed This Might Hurt and look forward to her next book.

Most interesting to me was following along with Natalie as she arrives at Wisewood and slowly deciphers what it is all about. The whole-vibe is quite cultish and I feel like Wrobel did a nice job with that. a b c d Rosseinsky, Katie (8 February 2022). "This Is Going To Hurt review: Hilarious, chaotic and heartbreaking". Evening Standard . Retrieved 5 March 2022. It exposes a lot that is wrong with the NHS, but never loses sight of how truly important it is. It wasn't until I came to live in California that I really understood how fortunate we were. I had lived in a bubble where healthcare was taken for granted as a human right and no one was ever told they couldn't be made better because they were too poor. The realization that some countries allowed people to die preventable deaths shook me to my core. It still does. Also we can all agree that doctors deserve absolutely every penny they get and are entitled to far more than they're being paid currently. But there's nothing like someone pre-financial crash describing themselves as poor while also having just bought an apartment and a trip to the Mauritius which just aaaargh really gets under my skin. The humor may have made a difficult topic easier to approach but it was not always funny nor it was always appropriate. I just wish that the book had a more serious tone at some points.I recommend This Might Hurt a Bit for those who have a sense of humor. This Might Hurt a Bit is a book worth reading, mostly for it hilarious plot line. I’m so glad that I ended up giving this book a chance! I read so many thrillers that I rarely find one that stands out but This Might Hurt is truly unique to the genre. Not only does it contain one, but it contains all of the following: This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel is a thriller novel. The story in This Might Hurt is one that is told in different timelines and by changing the point of view between the characters with one being an unknown character with a late reveal. Wisewood is a seemingly innocuous “retreat” on a deserted island, claiming to “completely transform” its guests after their six month stay. Upon further investigation, of course, it is quite obvious that Wisewood is a cult, with a manipulative leader and obliging followers. “This Might Hurt” not only explores the cult life, but also provides the reader with the history of Rebecca, its founder and leader, which was completely engaging for me and highly entertaining. Of course, the relationship between Kit and Natalie was dysfunctional, as a result of parental neglect and abuse, which leaves Kit wide open to be taken under Rebecca’s wing and groomed to be part of the Wisewood community.

This was really entertaining, in fact at times I had to literally wipe away tears of laughter. But there were a few stories where I felt the author went over the line, where someone should have told him to leave it out of this collection. These made up only about 10% of the book so it was easy to forgive. I also found the footnotes explaining medical procedures very interesting and not as intrusive as footnotes normally tend to be.Would your peers have done anything differently in that situation?’ All my peers would have done exactly the same things and had exactly the same outcome. But this wasn’t good enough for me. I knew that if I’d been better – super-diligent, super-observant, super-something – I might have gone into that room an hour earlier. I might have noticed some subtle changes on the CTG. I might have saved the baby’s life, saved the mother from permanent compromise. That ‘might have’ was inescapable.