Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

5 reviews

blewballoon's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I bought this book a couple years ago after I finished watching the latest season of Call the Midwife at the time. It's one of my favorite shows and I wish I had read the books sooner, it's a lot more of a faithful adaptation than I expected. It was nice to revisit the stories I remember from the early seasons but get a more in-depth midwife perspective on them, along with more information about how the characters from the show were presented in the memoir. Honestly, I feel like the show should get a reward for how good of a book adaptation it is. My biggest criticism is that the opinions of the author herself can be a little outdated and touch on racist/sexist or generally problematic. The book also feels incomplete, some things are set up or hinted at and then don't reach a conclusion as if they were setup for sequels, which I didn't expect in a memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and War

jenny_d's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Trafficking, Miscarriage, and Infidelity

em_gordon's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abortion, and Sexual content

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Miscarriage

katjoybooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing and Dementia

There is a VERY graphic scene of a strip show and prostitution. So much so I had to put the book down for a couple days before continuing.

pickledradish's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

A really fascinating look into a time period I didn't know much about before falling in love with the show. There's really a lot of information about how history and the past still affects the present. Alternates lighthearted anecdotes with some of the very difficult and tragic stories of people in awful situations, usually due to poverty. Overall has a very hopeful and reflective tone, but there's a lot of darkness in some of the stories

, especially that of Mary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexism, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Violence, and Rape