Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

7 reviews

antidietleah's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Pregnancy, Suicide, Physical abuse, Violence, Infertility, Murder, Child death, Abandonment, Misogyny, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

nkmustdie's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Xenophobia, War, Deportation, Gun violence, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Rape, Suicide, Bullying, Confinement, Pregnancy, Racism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Violence

nick13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

This book gets a three star simply because it is a story that needs to be read. Other than that,

I liked how slow the first part is to contrast how fast colonialism took over Africa

and how amazing complicated the main character is. This is all to say that this story has the groundwork to be absolutely astounding, yet at no point was my interest peaked. This is due to instead of engrossing rge reader into the story, it instead keeps this standoffish narration akin to a nonfiction. And if this were a nonfiction it would've been amazing for what it is, but it's not which lead this story to just not have the same impact it should.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Child death, Racism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Miscarriage, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Infidelity

Minor: Slavery

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Child death, Colonisation, Suicide, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Abandonment, Violence, and Child abuse

laurarosessupposes's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

1.25

Badly written, dull, and depressing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Blood, Colonisation, Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

amberkaylynn's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Abortion, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, Gore, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, and Misogyny

becca_22's review

reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Suicide, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Grief, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pregnancy, Torture, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Slavery, and War