Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson

17 reviews

leebeeloves's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Bullying

gem114's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Abandonment, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Murder, and Pregnancy

indiarose8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Overall I loved the story and premise. However it moves quite slowly from the beginning through the middle. It only really picks up three quarters of the way through but once it does, it's compelling! 

Really well written and gripping at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, War, and Gaslighting

cheye13's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Confinement

Minor: Gun violence and Gore

jazhandz's review

challenging dark slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Pregnancy, and Medical trauma

breq's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Terrifying and fascinating, and kept me guessing if it was an unreliable narrator, an unreliable annotator, both, or neither.  I love this style of fake history/memoir with multiple people contributing.  I choose to believe that

the publisher/annotator's constant reinforcement that this is fake and made up and of COURSE defamatory and NO ONE should believe this is in fact a complete CYA and they in fact agree in many places with the narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy and War

toorsdenote's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My only complaint about this book is that I'm done reading it. :-(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Alcohol