Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

29 reviews

joelle99's review

challenging slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Murder

gravys's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Miscarriage, Abortion, War, Pregnancy, and Infertility

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Gore, Alcohol, Homophobia, Sexual content, Death, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Sexism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Outing, Grief, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, and Misogyny

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

pidgepodge's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was a trip of a book. It keeps you going with twists and turns, and you never quite knew what would happen as things were going on. The relationship between

Lilian

is a wonderful mess, and really describes how relationships start out and the secrecy and excitement of something somewhat forbidden. I would recommend this book to those that want a LGBTQ+ historical fiction book, with mystery. I also think that the ending was so satisfying!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Blood, and Abortion

Minor: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts

natanidae's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abortion, Infidelity, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Miscarriage

endlessbummer__'s review

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Violence, Abortion, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Death, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, and Outing

jen_b22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Abortion

daisytracey's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion

sofipitch's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-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

This book changes genres on you so quick and it handles the change so well. I just found I liked the first part, the romance between Lilian and Frances more than the crime story. Also I wish the ending hadn't waited till the very end bc I figured it could only end one way with so little time left. It felt anticlimactic. Def more plotty than a character book but I enjoyed it nevertheless

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Violence

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Grief

linguaphile412's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Abortion, Murder, Infidelity, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Misogyny, Vomit, and Homophobia