Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

3 reviews

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Misogyny, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, War, Violence, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Rape, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use, Child abuse, Cursing, Excrement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, and Cancer

Minor: Classism

birth ; execution by hanging

angelinepro's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia

karingforbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

Pacing is still a bit off because she know she’s wants to write more, so she’s drawing it out then remembering she needs to move the story along. Claire’s knowledge and ability to do complex surgeries irks because two hundred years precious to having learned it, it shouldn’t have a 100% success rate but it does. She’s bringing in too many characters whose families all connect over centuries and making it more complicated than it should be. I can’t decide if she does a good job showing all the views of the times (re race, sex) or if she goes too far in the portrayal for a book written in 2011, notwithstanding that she started the series in the 1980s (ish). I do still like Ian, I think Williams POV was largely unnecessary, and while I love John and Jamie’s relationship, wtf? 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Torture, and Miscarriage