Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

24 reviews

mkbuehen's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

0.5

She just whines the entire book. Like yeah, if child-bearing and child-rearing isn't a decision you're already set on, it is an important decision to figure out, but she barely talks about any of the actual ethical worries and just whines and talks about having spells of poor mental health and having sex with her husband (which is often written in a gross way). Not to mention the annoying cooty-catcher fortune-telling gimmick she says she follows throughout a majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

leefox's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical content, and Sexual content

arsenic_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Racism

vanesst's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Medical content, Rape, Abortion, Cancer, Genocide, Infidelity, Antisemitism, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

avadore's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

I've had this book recommended to me by so many people! And it is good, in parts. It's also a huge slog. I think the parts I found most challenging were the assumptions made about pregnant people by the author, and the stifling heterosexuality of it all. I would still recommend it to other people as a study of how all consuming questions about parenthood can be, with the grain of salt that this presentation lacks something if you're not a cis straight white lady.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Genocide

12dejamoo's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

2.25

Reading books because someone recommended them to Rosalie Hale...

I don't think 22 year olds who probably don't want children and certaintly not now are the intended audience for this book. Maybe it would really stress me out if I was older. I recognised the Good Book-ness of this but I didn't actually enjoy my reading experience very much. It was a very quick read though - lots of white space

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Antisemitism, Genocide, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion, Infidelity, and Rape

Discusses the Holocaust and Concentration Camps a couple of times in relation to the author's grandmother

aweightytome's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I feel eh, about this book. Did I take away anything from this book? No. Was the writing enough to keep me reading? Sometimes. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Abortion

scarecrowskeith's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

nelthilta's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Antisemitism, Blood, Grief, Infertility, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Minor: Miscarriage, War, and Medical content

jennadewit's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual content