Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

13 reviews

barium_squirrel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Classism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Violence, Excrement, Drug abuse, Blood, Misogyny, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, Medical trauma, Dementia, Addiction, Confinement, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

cmcahill's review against another edition

I started watching the television show and thought I would check out the book. The TV show is sometimes hard to watch, but reading about the losses some women face, is much more powerful and upsetting. For this reason, I abandoned the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Physical abuse

kloughlin's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Infidelity, Medical content, and Trafficking

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Child abuse, and Rape

lolatarantula's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Infidelity, Rape, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Grief, Cursing, Excrement, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Abortion, Alcoholism, Classism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Addiction

maddiet425's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

I wouldn’t have liked this book had I not seen the show. The writing style wasn’t for me, and I didn’t love the pacing of the story. The book kept me interesting though and I did really enjoy reading about the characters and stories from the show, so I will probably read the rest of the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Miscarriage and War

esme_t's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape

cgreenstein's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

I had no idea that the TV show was so true to life. I figured the writers probably made things way more dramatic than they really were, but it seems that, if anything, the show is probably playing things down, not up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Child death, Abortion, and Medical trauma

alasdair_smith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Child death, Sexual content, Vomit, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

kjulie's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

I’ve loved the BBC Call the Midwife for a long time, and was excited to read the memoir many of their plot lines are based on. As I read this, I found that it was so similar that I felt I’d read it before (but had just seen the episode inspired by the chapter). There are little changes to the events in the show, but I think this is a rare case where I enjoy the show more than the book. I know it’s fictionalized, but the characters make that show, and they adjusted things to highlight each character, where (understandably) Jennifer Worths memoir focuses mainly on her own perspective. Unfortunately, I’ve never really found the character of Jenny Lee (on Call the Midwife BBC) to be very sympathetic or likeable… and this impression didn’t change after reading her stories in her own words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, and Domestic abuse

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book was full of sensitive reflections and life lessons that Jenny Worth learned when she was a midwife in England in the 1950s, 1960s, & 1970s. It was heartfelt and moving. And yes, much like the show, I did cry a few times!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence