Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

93 reviews

ninah17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, and War

lydiajines's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, War, Sexual violence, Abortion, and Domestic abuse

jennabarry3's review against another edition

emotional informative 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, War, Violence, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Torture, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion

whitebabysbreath's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

niicekid's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

This book had me in tears over the last few chapters. I couldn't stop crying. The tears kept rolling down my face. Tears of joy and sadness. It's painful to read how you can not turn back time and change faith. But it's miraculous to see the effect powerful words of unconditional love have on a human being. As broken as they may be, to feel the forgiveness and the reconciliation deep within your heart, that is what eases all the baggage that they dragged alongside them. It washes away the heaviness of the pain into a state where the pain evolves into fortitude. 

This for me is a masterpiece that tells a story of a world that is so otherly than what we know. We could not imagine the atrocities these people have to endure every single day. It's a story we read, that's moves us to tears and fuels the rage inside of us. To realise that all the thing you read is a horrible reality that people ought to live every day.

This book is amazing in bringing perspective in a complicated subject like this one. To shine light on the different aspects that play a role in the lives of the people that where born and raised in a country where freedom is something very fragile. Where you as a woman are denigrated, mistreated and kept small. Stripped from everything form of individuality. Wich for men in a world like that is also something that is hard to go up against. It's a world where you are expected to fulfill your duties to the best of your ability. 

I think it's important to read this book because it's an subject that unfortunately is still very relevant. I don't think many people care to read more into the subject at all and just have there prejudices about people fleeing there motherland. It's the violance they see in the news that passed their judgement. Not all the sorrow and the abuse these people had to endure.

And to all the people living this story; You are resilient, strong and so courageous. That you all get to live the lives we so blatantly take for granted and get the blessings you wish for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abortion, Medical content, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

emitori's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion and Ableism

kayteslibrary's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Confinement, Murder, Death, War, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Ableism and Child death

Minor: Alcohol and Abortion

mslessthan3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Torture

snikhtha's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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? No

4.0

The starting was slow and took me some time to get into it, but I couldn't put it down by the end.  There are moments of lovely writing in this book, when the plot slows down and the writing is more focused on the characters emotions and thoughts. Found some nice quotes to highlight.

The wars in Afghanistan always loom in the background, because while they affect the characters lives and decisions, the story is about individuals first and foremost, which I really liked. 

I also loved the characters. There were a mix of straight up repulsive, pure and good-hearted, and in-betweens who are neither. I was impressed by how even repulsive characters had moments where they 'made sense', as in, you see how justify it to themselves. Tariq, Babi, and Mullah Faizullah are the MVP when it comes to the men. And the orphanage manager, but I forget his name. Jalil, because of his many, MANY, flaws, is very interesting. 

It really is a sad book, which makes sense since it's set during decades of unending war, but I appreciate how hopeful the ending was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Miscarriage and Suicide

Minor: Abortion

coco_5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

wow, i don’t even know how to describe how amazing this work of literature is. it is a devastatingly beautiful story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War, Sexual violence, Sexism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, and Abortion