Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

5 reviews

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Infertility, Miscarriage, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

kulera's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Infertility, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Miscarriage, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Sexism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Stalking

thewordsdevourer's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

hm, it's been quite some time since i last finished a book frowning. the snow child is an amalgamation of many beautiful aspects: vivid scenery that makes for several wonderful, stirring scenes--the snow child-making and ice-skating scenes, in particular--filled w/ characters that demonstrate the charm and oft-touching neighborly relationships in the alaskan wilderness, and themes of life's possibilities, found family, nature's breathless beauty. and yet, the thread that holds it all tgt--faina's existence--is flimsy, and unfortunately makes for a magical realizm book that, in my opinion, lacks realism. it feels like a story that teters between a fairytale and realistic fiction, struggles throughout w/ trying to be both and neither, and pulls the rug off my feet at the end. throughout the whole book, the old couple wrestles w/ the wonder and--as is asserted pointedly several times--the "real humanness" of their own snow child, thus the ending makes for a baffling conclusion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Infertility, and Sexual content

Minor: Death and Child death

elephant_mouse's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful book. It has affected me so much. I don’t think everyone would love it as much as i did because it was exactly what I needed these past few days! But still a great book nonetheless. There are some quotes in here that will stick with me forever- I know it. 
All love to the author! I will read their other book very soon. 
:) <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, and Animal death

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual content

aerietta's review

I got just over half-way through the book.

It's an interesting story with a surprise at every turn, but it's just so grim. The little details are beautiful, but it feels like the characters chose to be miserable and are willing to fight to remain miserable, even when good things come up. It just became too hard to continue reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Infertility, and Mental illness

Suicidal ideation, stillbirth, extreme financial insecurity, extreme injury, gaslighting, isolation.