Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

57 reviews

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Torture, and War

Minor: Sexual content

kristinhunziker's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

kaybob_0708's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book has me laughing an crying multiple times throughout the book an any book that makes me cry is a 5 ⭐️ read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Torture, War, and Fire/Fire injury

scifi_rat's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual content, and Torture

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

4.25

A deeply moving tale perfect for fans of The Bear and the Nightingale. A classical feel and a tender reflection of motherhood and myth and the blurring of good and evil.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault

lornagrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Grief

katiemack's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

3.5

The first twenty or so pages are tough to get through, and some of the dialogue is clumsy at best. (I actually ended up abandoning the physical book to listen to the audiobook, which I'd highly recommend for the fun accents. I also think the dialogue works better when listening to rather than reading this.) I wasn't expecting Angrboda's cave to feel like such a warm gathering place--at least, in the first part of the book--and I was pleasantly surprised by the coziness of it all. Readers who know more about Norse mythology might take issue with the way the characters are depicted, but I enjoyed learning more about the lore in an accessible way; this made me want to read more about the subject. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

ka_ke's review against another edition

I don’t mind slow pacing, but I can’t stand reading about pregnancy for chapters on end. I would recommend avoiding this book if you have no desire to experience pregnancy, childbirth or parenthood. 

What could have been a story of adventure, romance and diversity  turned into a book about women becoming mothers simply because that was expected of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Blood, Pregnancy, Body horror, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Sexual content, and Stalking

nick13's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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

4.0

I really enjoyed most of this book, even with how weird it got at some parts,  and would recommend it to anyone who considers themselves fans of Greek mythology, however, I will say the character development on several side characters left more to be desired with a certain few characters to be quite lacking for how important they end up being -

the two sons that she births

- but even so this book is still really solid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Infidelity, War, and Torture

Minor: Animal death and Genocide

noodletheriddle's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Grief