Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

62 reviews

amandasbokhylla's review

challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Sexual content

Moderate: Transphobia, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Drug use

pseudolain's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Abortion, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and War

Moderate: Terminal illness, Bullying, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Hate crime, and Misogyny

gabriella_'s review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

His prose is beautiful and reads like poetry, it is recommended to read this before Night Sky with Exit Wounds, it adds so much more context to that read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Medical content, Drug use, Addiction, Bullying, War, Violence, Sexual content, Grief, Abortion, Xenophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Sexism, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Dementia, Death, Cursing, and Classism

m_moon's review

Extremely beautiful, but emotionally difficult  to read. Very heavy. Sad to let this go unfinished, but has affected my my mood too much unfortunately. Would rate 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, War, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Miscarriage and Abortion

rgrgrg's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Drug use, Drug abuse, War, Sexual content, Death of parent, Colonisation, Violence, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Grief, Death, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Abortion

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

while the plot was good and the writing was lush and poetic, i did not realize there were such graphic depictions of sex and abuse. I do not think anyone really talks about this and it was a little startling. please check the trigger warnings!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

killeenm's review

dark reflective sad medium-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? Yes

2.0

I wanted to like this book but I really didn’t. The first part was the best in my opinion, and I did appreciate the book’s exploration of war, immigration, parents, and queerness. Overall, I didn’t understand the sometimes overly metaphoric tangents, even though I wanted to understand what they were getting at, I didn’t. They didn’t flow well with the rest of the book and seemed like an author’s attempt to work in certain points without actually having to tie it into the story. As the book went on, graphic descriptions turned gruesome and torturous to read. I’m not one to shy away from reality or portrayals of it, but it was too much for me at times, and most of the time it didn’t seem to add to the point of the book. It was obviously written by a talented poet, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Bullying, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Child abuse, War, Murder, Abortion, Violence, Homophobia, Hate crime, Excrement, Vomit, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, and Addiction

chiaracerniglia's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, War, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Death, Rape, Miscarriage, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Racism

giulia_rossi's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Blood, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Abortion, Addiction, Drug use, and Child abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Body shaming, and Panic attacks/disorders

kendylldrilling's review

emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Addiction, and Child abuse