Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

4 reviews

dananana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Pregnancy, Colonisation, Misogyny, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cannibalism

raptorq's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Racism, Death, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Colonisation, and Death of parent

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, and Cannibalism

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Hate crime, and Death of parent

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Gore, Suicide, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Genocide

Minor: Drug use, Terminal illness, Ableism, Alcohol, Child death, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, and Medical trauma

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sarah984's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

4.0

This book was a little bit slow for me at first, a lot of day to day descriptions of travelling, and a few of the side characters feel like they're just there to pad out the team (sorry Tyler) but overall a great hopeful post apocalyptic story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, Grief, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Gore, and Suicide

Minor: Misogyny, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Rape, and Pregnancy

There are threats of rape and allusions to women kept as “concubines” by the militia but no rape occurs on page.