Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

74 reviews

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The audiobook is a fantastic version of the story. I would argue it is the best way to experience the story.  You will find yourself rooting for the main character throughout all the trials and periods of growth. The beauty and pain of remembering beginnings, endings, tragedies, and love are intertwined as surely as the water around their people. Remembering is painful and a lot to shoulder alone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

danielle_sips_tea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Death, and Genocide

Moderate: Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

noahsingh's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

I would give this book six stars if I could. What an accomplishment of worldbuilding and characterization 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Trafficking, Child death, Child abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Child death, Pregnancy, Slavery, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

books4bee's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Murder, Suicide attempt, Violence, Pregnancy, Slavery, and War

literaryliaisons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Colonisation, Violence, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

kalira's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I found this book not only incredibly interesting (such an unusual and creative base, and yet also so immediately immersive) but lovely and also painful.

Yetu's pain with her life and her people is telegraphed clearly, and it drew me in to her hopelessness, anger, and eventual grasp at escape - and yet the story also twines the reader into how Yetu is so badly torn even

when she does escape the fate that has been killing her

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As I read more and got even further wound up in the story - both Yetu's and of all the wajinru, I truly desperately wanted a happy ending, but also dreaded where the ending would actually take me.

I was, in the end, delighted with the perhaps-not-perfect but incredible resolution that managed to remove the torturous worst from Yetu as Historian . . . and to bring Oori with her, never to be left behind again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Slavery, Colonisation, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, War, and Trafficking

Minor: Sexual content and Eating disorder

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, Self harm, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Genocide, Death of parent, War, Pregnancy, and Suicide attempt

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

I had heard a lot of praise for this one so I’m glad I finally picked it up. I love inspired fantasy tales and this one is such a powerful tale mixing real historical trauma with fantastical creatures. I had no idea that this is, in a way, part of a series – the author has taken inspiration from a song about this idea by a band who were themselves inspired by another band! It’s a great collaborative work in the end.

It’s a heavy book as the blurb suggests but while it dives into that trauma (a pun to lighten the mood), it does so in a balanced way and it’s a beautiful reflection on what it means to be human at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy