Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

El Color del Asesinato de Bee Larkham by Sarah J. Harris

3 reviews

cnannery19's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cancer, Medical content, Pregnancy, Bullying, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Self harm, and Sexual assault

another_typo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Vomit

bug_lightyear's review against another edition

2.0

An awful book. Why did an author who has no first hand experience in autism choose to write such a story? The main character is an autistic kid who sees colours for sounds and is face blind, and is framing himself as a murderer but nobody believes him. This book has bullying, r-word insults, child abuse and more awful themes, and the autistic kid is mostly a stereotype of being a genius at painting and doing quite bad with social cues, with a dad who doesn't understand his stimming (flapping and rocking to keep up with the stereotypes). He loves parakeets and despite other reviewers hating them I actually missed more heavy infodumping because he clearly has a deep interest in them and knows more than we're told.
The intrigue peaks with more child abuse and a very distressed main character. I got this book for free because the library was giving it away and I was wondering why, well now I understand, it's not a good book especially taken as a book to understand autism or synaesthesia. I was looking forward to reading a possibly relatable book from an autistic point of view, but it's written by someone who did research, and that research falls short from portraying a genuine autistic character. 
I usually avoid these kind of books and themes and should have looked at content warnings before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Self harm, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Murder, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Vomit, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Ableism