Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

124 reviews

ashleighhuntley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Addiction, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Gun violence, and Violence

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Abandonment, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion, Cursing, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Car accident, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

meghancraft's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Abortion

hmatt's review

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I was a little skeptical going into another TJR historical fiction novel after Daisy Jones, which it seems like the whole world loved but which I found a bit too cliche (I rated it a 4 though? idk perfect example of why I try to actually write reviews now). In any case, Julia Whelan is by far my favourite narrator, and I have been known to read books sight unseen if she's narrated them, so I knew I'd eventually get around to this one.

And I really enjoyed it! It felt like every scene was important to the story - nothing dragged on, the whole novel really kept to pace. I think there was potential for this not to be true with how many different perspectives were incorporated. Most importantly, I felt connected to all the perspective characters, even the minor ones (Not saying I felt for them all, to be clear lol). TJR has always been really good at writing complex, flawed, real people characters.

The one-day structure of the story was also well-executed. I appreciated that, even though we're told about how the 24 hours ends right at the start, the foreshadowing throughout isn't overbearing and there's room for other storylines to breathe and play out. Plus, while a number of predictable events happen, I was relieved to not come out of this reading feeling like I had been fed a cookie-cutter/play-on-real-life novel.

[April 9, 2022 update: I can't get these characters out of my head so I think that merits updating the rating to 4.75]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Classism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Racism, and Sexism

Minor tags are predominantly just "mentions of"

aflseniors09's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-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

3.75

I enjoyed the back and forth of present day and the past, going through different perspectives of people. I feel like we could've gotten further into some of the characters as it felt like some of them were only surface level. 
It just seems like there was a lot left unsaid. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Infidelity, Abortion, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

sophieampleford's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Abortion

bellaguiliano's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Moderate: Abortion, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

bookswithjess's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Infidelity and Pregnancy

Minor: Gun violence, Sexism, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, and Abortion

knunderb's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Abortion

veronicats's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

Didn't live up to all the hype, but well written. TJR you're still my girl tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Sexism, and Violence