Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Farm by Joanne Ramos

6 reviews

fbzcab's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Racism

Minor: Abortion, Dementia, and Cancer

badvision's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Infertility, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

epellicci's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Complicated, unsettling, and fraught. In a lot of ways The Farm remined me of The Handmaids Tale. It tells the story of Jane, a young  Filipino mother who winds up working as a surrogate mother for the rich clients of an organisation that controls and manipulates her life. Both uncomfortable and a complete page-turner, it discusses race, women's rights, class and power in equal measure and encourages its readers to really engage with the characters. An excellent read.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Racism, Gaslighting, and Confinement

Moderate: Abortion and Toxic friendship

Minor: Terminal illness, Sexual content, and Slavery

sderrig's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Infertility, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Trafficking

canadabooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

mmatti300's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

The blurb gave the whole plot away, which was really frustrating. I found myself waiting for key parts of the blurb to happen (even up to the last page ugh). I think this book was better than I had anticipated based on some other reviews; however, the end and the unfortunate way that the blurb gave so much away really made it a meh book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Trafficking

Minor: Abortion