Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

110 reviews

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Infertility and Panic attacks/disorders

marissalouisee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-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

4.5

I loved the Heart Principle, another amazing story by Helen Hoang. I loved the blooming love between Anna and Quan, but I took off .5 because generally this novel is very sad. it’s very reminiscent of real life in that way, but i usually read to escape, so this one wasn’t the 5 star that the Bride Test and the Kiss Quotient were for me! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Infertility, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Ableism

mikachus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Infertility and Medical content

Minor: Excrement

miaromano's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Death of parent, Death, and Medical content

booksofautumn's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cursing

buckaroo97's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Infertility, Sexual content, Ableism, Grief, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Classism, Death, Infertility, Medical content, Sexual content, Mental illness, Ableism, Cancer, Cursing, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racism

katieelizabeth_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

Overall, I enjoyed this book! It was definitely a romance with spice but it was also so much more than that. The story brings to life many different elements such as autism awareness, disability rep, being a caregiver, feelings of loss and hopelessness etc. It was an intriguing and emotional romance to read. HOWEVER, the amount of times I read the word ASS in this book. PLUS, is it a consensus between authors to put in extremely awful lines when describing smut "the globes of his ass" - what...Anyway, overall a good and emotional read! I would recommend it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

perpetualpages's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-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

4.5

CWs: some internal and external ableism; explorations of cancer and terminal illness; some descriptions of panic attacks and overstimulation; discussions about infertility; some self harm and suicide ideation; explorations of caretaking; parental death and grief; and explicit sexual content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Infertility

sausages416's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

this book was great. i love helen hoang and when i started this book i knew it would be different from the others in this series. it wasn’t as light and honestly i loved how she touched on the topics that she did. i also like that we get to see a deeper side of quan that isnt at all seen in the other books. i also just loved anna and was rooting for her the whole time. i guess my one gripe (which honestly feels kind of petty so you can disregard) is that i wish quan had an easier time. like i love this book and am glad it exists in the form it does but simultaneously part of me also wishes his story was a little lighter. might be just me. i love you helen!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, and Excrement

Minor: Infertility and Infidelity