Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

The Women by Kristin Hannah

9 reviews

jeggert10's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic relationship, Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Pregnancy, Racism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Cursing, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Abortion, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Police brutality, and Rape

wellreadjen's review against another edition

dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Review contains spoilers. 

I found the story about the women in Vietnam engaging and very interesting. I thought the way the sun the or crafted that story as well as the story about their treatment and struggles once home was well done. However the romance aspect of the book I found very poorly done and almost made me put down the book in annoyance. 3 love interests and two are married. The other is a trained psychiatrist who deals with vets and he doesn’t help her get help while they are together even though she is obviously struggling? And the guy it is implied she ends up with was one of the married guys. He did get divorced I guess but he still tried to get together with the main character while he was married. Not a stellar character in my opinion. 

It also felt like the author went out of her way to basically say “waiting until marriage to have sex is outdated and stupid” but every time the character had sex with someone people got hurt and things got worse. Ope. Also the random references to abortion even when no character was seeking an abortion was also very odd putting as a prolife woman reader. 

Anyway. I felt this had a lot going for it and was dragged down by a poor attempt at adding romantic drama to the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Infertility and Racism

Minor: Abortion

esjackson's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Grief, Violence, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Gore, Gun violence, Cursing, Suicide, Addiction, Child death, Alcohol, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Vomit, War, and Self harm

Moderate: Classism, Vomit, and Cancer

Minor: Torture, Hate crime, Abortion, and Police brutality

kelsinavalta's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Medical content, Torture, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Infidelity, Genocide, Car accident, Cancer, Abortion, Child death, War, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Violence, Sexism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Infertility, Death, Suicide, Police brutality, and Blood

vanessaedwards1882's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, and Blood

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

greenlivingaudioworm's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Murder, Rape, Mental illness, Suicide, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Violence, Addiction, Genocide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Cursing, Medical content, War, and Vomit

plip08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Be prepared to be emotional destroyed, but that’s just a regular day with Kristin Hannah. I would compare this book to the four winds, it was unrelenting. Frankie never ever caught a break for a second. The story was told so well and you really felt how Frankie felt. In the end I think she had a happy ending so at least there was that. On a different note, this book really explains a lot that I don’t think my generation ever knew about the Vietnam war and I’m thankful to have learned that history about our country. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Medical content, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, War, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Abortion, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Please do not read if you can’t handle super dark content.

abontra02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion

eperetz's review

challenging emotional 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

4.5

This books was clearly well researched and written thoughtfully. The characters were vibrant and flawed in a very realistic way. Hannah does a beautiful job pulling me in to feel all of the complicated emotions right along with her characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death, Misogyny, Addiction, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Gore, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Sexism, Blood, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Moderate: Car accident, Suicide attempt, Infertility, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Abortion