Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

210 reviews

toujours753's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Chronic illness, Violence, Abandonment, Body shaming, Torture, Vomit, Gaslighting, Excrement, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Rape, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Infertility, Incest, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Stalking

makayla_m812's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Animal death, Infertility, Death of parent, Gore, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Suicide

veerau's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.0

How gross! (positive) 

TW for pretty much everything in existence, perhaps even more

Glad I read it, now my eyes can be glad nothing I'll ever read from this point on will be as disgusting 😃👍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Child abuse, Rape, Abortion, Child death, Self harm, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Slavery, Classism, Death, Pregnancy, Animal death, Excrement, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Religious bigotry

gnpunpun's review against another edition

dark 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

2.5

Great writing, type of book that is written specifically to disturb you. Type of book that makes you wish you were illiterate. I’ll never read it again, but, though I wanted to throw up at some parts, I also wanted to keep reading to see just how terrible it could get. It does get you hooked gotta give it that! Especially in the second half, it’s gross and dark and disturbing. The religious aspect and how it was used was really interesting to me so that’s basically what my stars for this review are for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Death, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Classism, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Moderate: Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death

Minor: Self harm

You should look up all of the trigger warnings before this book, I may have missed some!

maddievoll's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I have such mixed feelings. I love the message of this novel and what it stands for but it was hard to read. At times it was boring or repetitive. I enjoyed the ending of this novel and love this author. Worth reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Sexism, Suicide, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Rape, Abandonment, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Animal death, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

kittycatcaitlyn's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Blood, Abortion, Child death, Death, and Cannibalism

kayla_wikaryasz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

0.5

This book was gross. Not even in a good way. Clearly this author is talented, but the story was so perverse that it seemed they were just going for shock value. I only finished it because I invested too much time into it already, and was hopeful that it would at least end in a meaningful way. It didn't. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Blood, Mental illness, Death, Animal death, Incest, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Rape, Medical trauma, Gore, Ableism, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Violence, Sexism, Miscarriage, Self harm, Religious bigotry, and Animal cruelty

b00murded's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

kind of disgusting in a "car crash you can't look away from" kind of way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Violence, Blood, Child death, Self harm, Body shaming, Death, Incest, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, and Death of parent

theraindiary's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Torture, Abandonment, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Gore, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Pregnancy, Rape, Body shaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Incest, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cannibalism, Excrement, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

amyy_'s review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

I really don’t know what to think of this. 
There isn’t really a plot at all just lists of disturbing events that happened over a year. Don’t really know why someone would want to write about them either. It’s like she just added all the most horrible things together and put them in a story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Cannibalism, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Violence, Death, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Self harm, Emotional abuse, Incest, Blood, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Physical abuse

Very weird