Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

3 reviews

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Both a cautionary tale and a tribute to motherhood and grief, this novella examines the dangers of sacrifice with empathy and humanity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Suicide, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Death, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

Moderate: Infertility, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Medical content

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

Be aware that there are scenes of mutilation, amputation, finding a dead body, disfigurement of the body, dysfunctional familial relationships, and ghosts.

sargasso_c's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

A piercing and essential exploration of maternal grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Self harm, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Gore, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Vomit

madarauchiha's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

Weird and creepy story about grief. Well written, interesting, the supernatural portion wasn't goofy and I appreciate that it didn't go fully scooby doo. I thought it handled the heavy subject matter fairly well. 

It's an incredibly white book. Zero diversity. Which like I'm not exactly demanding because useless authors shoehorning useless sidekicks of color or black sidekicks to white main characters is the LAST thing I want to read.



major suicide, suicide ideation, gore, injuries, blood, self harm, death, grief, alcohol, 

medium medical content, infertility, pregnancy, car accidents, 

minor sexual content, alcohol, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Infertility, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol