Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

4 reviews

lemonsaurus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Infertility, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Disaster and disaster relief depictions including post disaster confinement and lack of external communication options during medical emergency

_david_'s review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? No

5.0

I have never loved a set of characters more. They feel so real. The book was about a small private dome filled with kindness and people learning about eachother and understanding eachother. There were so many beautiful moments and I couldn't have asked for a better ending to this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, and Classism

Minor: Chronic illness, Infertility, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

acemummerz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-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

Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Infertility, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Deportation

The book explores alien cultures during a space disaster - everything discussed is about alien races / species rather than human, but it does explore some moderately difficult topics. Medical content spoiler:

an alien child gets effectively CO2 suffocated (accident) and nearly dies

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

I absolutely love this series, and I'm so sad to have finished it. This book was so lovely, and I will never get over how well Becky Chambers combines this hopeful diverse utopia with incredible social commentary and complicated issues. There is so much to be learned from this series. Also there were several moments of wholesomeness or hope that just made me tear up (as well as a line from the acknowledgements that just. fully made me cry?? honestly rude).

I'll be recommending this series to anyone I can get to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Vomit, and Murder