Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

The Deep by Alma Katsu

10 reviews

emmonsannae's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

1.5

Ahhh, I really wanted to like this book! The positive is that it’s well written and I enjoyed its prose. I would definitely read something else by the same author. The negatives: I didn’t end up enjoying the story at all. I didn’t find the way it shaped out to be compelling. The supernatural elements were too spread out, so their conclusion (to me) felt contrived. I really disliked the weird throuple energy the main characters ended up having—that relationship and how it was treated in the story made the historical aspect much less believable. By the end of the novel, the whole thing felt like the 21st century transposed into the early 20th, rather than an immersion in the latter, which is what I think was most disappointing to me. Ultimately I think the book was just trying to be too many things, and that it could have been far better by doing less. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Homophobia, Classism, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

kristasorocks's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Suicide

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Classism, Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual content, Infidelity, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Sexism, Stalking, and Suicide

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Abortion, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Child abuse, and Infertility

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The Fervor was interesting and skillfully woven; this was a titanic fan fiction clusterfuck with random supernatural bits

Wouldn’t recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Misogyny, and Suicide attempt

ten_telegrams's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide, Abortion, Death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, and Drug abuse

phaas's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide, Death, Child death, and Pregnancy

shelleys_shelf's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Pretty underwhelming. I was excited about this one because I love anything Titanic, but this is advertised as being a horror novel and there just isn't any horror in this novel. It's more paranormal in my opinion than horror. It was still okay just because of the Titanic elements.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

blewballoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

User kellate summed it up in my opinion by saying "All of this over some milquetoast man??????" So many unlikable characters making nonsensical decisions.

The main plot is essentially three women doing way too much (leaving their entire life behind, murder, suicide, offering their infant child to a sea god??) for a man who is average at best and a selfish gambler at worst.

I was really excited for a ghost story on the Titanic and this is so very far from what I wanted. Even the gay boxer plotline wasn't done well enough to save it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Grief, Infertility, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content, Addiction, Misogyny, Classism, Vomit, Drug abuse, Drug use, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexism

time4tori2read's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This psychological horror from the author of The Hunger was an extremely slow burn that could have used more horror elements to really make the story stick. I enjoyed the format of switching between the Titanic and the Britannic as it leaves you in a headspace similar to that Annie Henley was experiencing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Miscarriage, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

gabymarie's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Death, Child death, and Miscarriage