Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

As irmãs Blue + brindes by Coco Mellors

17 reviews

rgv's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infertility, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

rebekkahreads's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

Trigger warning: Suicide, death/grief, drug abuse, complex family 

A beautiful, messy story of 3 sisters trying to live and find meaning after the death of their sister.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infertility

joclousing's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

sillyemmylou's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

Additional content warnings:
-Overdose
-Opiate Abuse
-Withdrawal 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Infertility and Rape

looney_lily's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful slow-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Infertility

candace_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infertility and Infidelity

Minor: Emotional abuse and Medical content

supermormongirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

kristakp's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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

4.25

I don't have siblings but this felt like a raw presentation of both the sibling dynamic and addiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Suicide, Medical trauma, and Lesbophobia

booksandabackpack's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Blue Sisters is the story of 3 sisters arriving at the one year anniversary of the fourth sister’s death. While the characters were developed as well as the plot, this book was a big miss for me. 

Every character was harshly distinct from one another with fantastic jobs and unique traits that felt tremendously cliche to me. A family of four sisters all so wildly different from one another felt so forced and like a box was ticked. It wasn’t just with their careers but their sexuality, fashion, living situation, and everything in between. All the side characters were forced into this distinction as well, with their unique identifiers being pushed to the forefront. This completely took me out of the story and felt like a checked off list more than a naturally diverse fictional world. I took multiple notes throughout when a new bauble of a character would appear because it just baffled me. 

While the hodge podge variety of characters took me out of the story, what turned me against it was the treatment of addiction and the power within an age gap relationship. Addiction was clearly a struggle within this family yet it doesn’t tie together demonstrably. The best way I can say it is, icky. Although I’m not looking for a fiction book to promote a healthy way of handling a disease like addiction, this one read too flippant and discombobulated to appreciate it. 

The last quarter was so much stronger than the first half or so but the epilogue was such a disappointment. 

What Mellors did masterfully though was make each of the characters clearly alive on the page, even if they were weighed down by cliches. I’d like to read from her again in a story where the characters aren’t forced to fill out every possibly diverse aspect of a human being. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

Preferred her first book - this one took me a while to care about the sisters but I eventually got there 3💙

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment