Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

64 reviews

kylieqrada's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The mood lately is weird shit and I am livingggggg.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Suicide

brichneyfloss's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Pregnancy

bookwhisperer's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Confinement and Drug use

shantastic_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Well constructed beautifully eerie atmosphere - I could clearly visualize Pastoral in all its lush greenery and creepy stillness. The multiple POVs were effective in building tension, revealing different pieces of information and letting the reader put it together, bit by bit. The plot takes some predictable and unrealistic turns, and I think Travis' special ability described at the outset of the book is an unnecessary trope that doesn't ultimately add much.  That said, I enjoyed this story and had a hard time putting it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Pregnancy, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Medical trauma, Suicide, and Gun violence

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Suicide

milojean_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence and Pregnancy

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

It took me a bit to get into the swing of this book, but I did like it the farther along it went.

Bee was my favorite character.

Glad she got her justice and knifed Levi, an abusive ass.

All in all, a good and interesting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, and Mass/school shootings

ashyq's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Ableism

Minor: Suicide

cyan_altaria's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

2.75

The tension with seeing the cult of Pastoral was good, but the magic was just weird.  It's wasn't woven into the story well at all.  It felt abrupt and out of place.  Honestly, the magic tanked this by a whole star.  Seeing Theo and Calla stay in Pastoral also felt out of character.  The ending was really bad, and things didn't feel properly explained

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, and Pregnancy

laurenleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

While I think this was a great story written well, I cannot believe they had not one, not two, but three TERRIBLE narrators. It makes me wonder if the direction is to blame, because they all had such a flat, lifeless, weak tone. I’m referring to the three main characters, who do 90% of the book. The first narrator who does just the first chapter was amazing and totally got me hooked. If it wasn’t for that stellar opening, I would not have kept on. This reading experience was a practice in separating narrator from text, because the work itself was quite good. It was an interesting plot, especially in this time, and I can’t help but compare the characters’ fear of Rot with our fears of Covid. Not that they are the same by any means, but it was a thought-provoking read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Confinement, and Xenophobia