Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

3 reviews

snowiceblackfruit77's review

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Abortion, Body horror, Blood, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Vomit, Alcohol, Gore, Physical abuse, Death, Medical trauma, Cursing, Rape, and Sexual assault

margozaldivar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body horror, and Abortion

Moderate: Death

emilymbrown's review

dark mysterious reflective tense 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

4.75

Absolutely jarring. Not what I was expecting at all but I fell so attached the moment I read the first page. Beautiful and scary and confusing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Grief, Suicide, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Violence, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Pregnancy, Abortion, Rape, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, and Death of parent