Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

43 reviews

carlaah1984's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Dementia, and Pregnancy

seyfert's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Grief, Miscarriage, and Child death

Minor: Mental illness, Violence, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Vomit

erinmcav's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Dementia, Child death, Sexual assault, and Miscarriage

bookgurlie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Rape, Child death, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

anahisa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

THE HITS KEPT COMING AND THEY NEVER STOPPED. 

A reading experience that made me feel both haunted + hunted! Love how Talty subverts horror tropes in these stories. I’m finding myself at a loss for words because it’s such an incredibly raw narrative it feels wrong to talk about in passing. While I highly recommend picking this one up, advise the trigger warnings!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Rape, Violence, Vomit, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Child death, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Infertility, and Sexual assault

heatherjchin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Violence, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Dementia

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Blood, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Death of parent

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Drug abuse, Child death, Addiction, Alcohol, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Death, and Miscarriage

jayisreading's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

These interconnected stories were so raw yet tender. Focusing on friends and family, generational trauma, life on the reservation, and just the general pains of growing up, Talty explores these themes through David, who serves as a protagonist of sorts for each story. Each story has its pain and grief that the characters go through, but there’s always space to show love still exists, despite everything.

Talty is a phenomenal storyteller, tugging at your heartstrings during some moments due to heart wrenching loss, but then having you laughing at others. These stories resist glamor and comfort in favor of presenting everyday life as is, the realities of one Penobscot boy’s/man’s world. This isn’t to say that the writing is plain— Quite the contrary, Talty has a really wonderful way with words, especially when it comes to dialogue; you really get a sense of each character’s persona and beliefs from these conversations.

I think the one thing that threw me off a little was the jumping around in time, which, in turn, affected the pacing a little. In some instances, we’re looking at the world from David’s perspective as a boy. In others, he’s a young man. It was a little hard to get into the stories at times, as a result, but I will say that I don’t think I was in the right headspace to fully appreciate these stories.

Whatever the case, I’m looking forward to what more Talty has in store for his readers. This collection of short stories really packed a punch. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Child death, Dementia, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, Car accident, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Sexual violence and Blood

riverestyx's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This is the first novel in years that has had me hanging on and needing more. I would do extra chores to just keep listening and trying to find out where the story weaves. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Stalking, and Miscarriage

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Genocide, and Medical content

muzzfuzz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I went into this book expecting a series of unconnected horror-ish stories and what I got instead was a moving and heartbreaking collection of vignettes following the same family over decades. I'm not sure if this was a marketing misstep, but either way I'm so glad this book found its way to me.

The stories were originally published as separate pieces, but together they form a very competent novel. I don't mind going back and forth in time, but with just a bit more editing it could have more clear and friendlier to the novel format. The stories are so interconnected that it's difficult for your brain to not try and figure out where in the timeline you are, which detracted from the experience a bit.

Overall, though, a beautifully written, deeply sad, and at times humorous collection. It spurred me to learn more about the Penobscot indigenous community and I am eagerly awaiting Talty's next novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Racism, and Sexual assault