Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

11 reviews

yasminao's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment, Vomit, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Infertility, and Miscarriage

Minor: Rape

gwenswoons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abortion, Abandonment, Grief, and Toxic relationship

readingwithkaitlyn's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Graphic: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Grief, Abortion, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Excrement, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Vomit, Blood, Racism, and Miscarriage

bookicornia's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad fast-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: Abandonment

Minor: Abortion

parkyparkpark's review

emotional informative sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Vomit, and Death

mydiverse_bookshelf's review

emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is a powerfully packed novel in such short amount of pages..
All i can say is brilliant!

I'm amazed how author brilliantly about much needed discussion through a gripping storyline.
 She not only talks about men's lack of or ignorance about various things when it comes to sex or about how a women's body works or even about how stereotypical and misogynistic statements like women are "meant to bear it".
 
She also talks about--- How it boils down to what's expected of a women and how she should behave or how she should be as women; Everything is "Pre-determined" by not just society but the mother's themselves who push for it.

It also talks about motherhood, about being a parent and about a daughter understanding her own mother and wondering why did she fail all those years to really understand what she went through.

It's beautiful read! Probably my favorite short story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Transphobia

sadiaa's review

fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Abandonment, Abortion, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Vomit

sarahsbookss's review

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, and Pregnancy

bookishandjoyceful's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.5

This was a quick short story of a women, Zikora and her reflection on not only what she is going through now as a new mom in labor and how she came to this place with a man who is not involved, nor wants to be involved in his child’s life. As well as a mother who has strong opinions and other individuals in this story that are shown to have different biases and treat Zikora in various unacceptable ways. Zikora deals with a lot in this short story. 

Know going into it that it dives right into some tough topics including gaslighting from a doctor during labor, postpartum anxiety, abandonment, sexism, and rape. This book was heavy and it left a weird taste in my mouth, not just because of the heavy topics, but because there was so much crammed into a short story and the way that some of these topics just seemed glanced over that it didn’t seem to give each issue its due time. This short story seemed to throw as much as it could at the wall and hope it stuck in your mind and it just didn’t sit right with this type of writing style. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexism, and Rape

Moderate: Death and Abortion

Postpartum anxiety.

elled's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Miscarriage, Rape, Pregnancy, and Abandonment