Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

22 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

teravannoy's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Blood, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

This book shares details of childbirth, but the stories of prostitution were more unsettling.

aminowrimo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs and Rape

its_van_vulpen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Classism, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Abandonment, and Abortion

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

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

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

foreveralicexox's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy