Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

51 reviews

jmq23's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I think a lot of the themes kind of went over my head when i read it. I’m going to have to give it a more in depth read and i’ll probably also have to annotate it too in order to understand. but i loved it, it was meaningful and relatable and the prose was amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Violence

dhritigupta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

it took me a bit to get through this, but i still liked it! i felt like i was too dumb to fully understand the stories a lot of the time, but many of them still stuck with me! the writing was beautiful the whole way through, but some stories i wanted to know what was going on a bit more!! my faves were mothers, inventory, real women have bodies and eight bites. however, even with the ones i didn’t get as much, i’m still thinking about them, bc they grow on you by the time you finish the story. like with especially heinous and the resident i’m still thinking about the perfect eeriness, even if i didn’t love them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Medical trauma, Gore, Animal death, Murder, Body shaming, Body horror, Fatphobia, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Homophobia, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

ejr1904's review against another edition

dark funny tense slow-paced

3.25

It was hit and miss. 

I wanted so desperately to fall in love with all of these tales, but only a couple of them resonated. The Inventory was sensational and the ribbon was a really fascinating modernized version of urban legend. It was dark and nostalgic. 

I felt like the SVU story missed the mark. It was long, over imagined, and was difficult to track. I was most excited for that, but I was neither moved by the meaning nor the prose. 

Her writing is impactful and the subject matter is crucial, I was just left with wanting a bit more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Dysphoria, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

lstrydom25's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.5

Spooky, dark, strange but did make me think about things and some beautiful passages/ways of describing certain parts of womanhood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, and Eating disorder

rockymtn's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Medical content, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Gore, Drug use, Gaslighting, Self harm, Animal death, and Vomit

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal cruelty

jbogerhawkins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jmcordero's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• 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: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, and Rape

skipabeat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I liked The Husband Stitch, Inventory, and The Resident. The worst story is that one of fake Law and Order SVU episode plots. Makes use of a lot of graphic imagery and pain/embarrassment/shame.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Grief, and Gore

tahsintries's review against another edition

dark mysterious

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy