Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

12 reviews

thebankofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Trafficking, Body horror, Infertility, and Medical content

20sidedbi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Infertility, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Slavery, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

kandisebrown's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Slavery, Miscarriage, Infertility, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Confinement, War, Ableism, Body horror, Medical content, Child death, Colonisation, and Police brutality

nostradamnus's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad 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? No

3.0

Read this if you want to: explore the political climate of the late 2010s/early 2020s through fiction;  read about real, specific people navigating the end of the present world; and/or be made deeply aware of your body and its evolutionary history. Also, if you're into transitionary dystopias.

It's very frustrating to like this book less than The Handmaid's Tale because I think this book is arguably better--it has higher and more specific spec-to-fic ratio, characters that were real, and a really graphic description of watching someone give birth--but I read THT years ago, and I read FHOTLG in 2023. It's the day after my state put in an emergency stop for all trans healthcare. Roe v. Wade is dead. Abortion pills may be next. And I think right now, forced birthing centers, pregnancy policing, and a rising Christo-fascist government just feel a bit too real. 

Maybe I'll be able to reread this in a few years and be able to really take it all in, appreciate it for what it is, but wrong place, wrong time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Torture and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Infertility, and Suicidal thoughts

boredacademic's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness and Medical trauma

Minor: Child death, Blood, Death, Medical content, and Physical abuse

becksusername'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Wow this did not have a happy ending. At all. I really wanted it to. This book was so good and had such an original premise, I was definitely hooked immediately and tore through it.

Re-Read: Holy fucking shit I love this book. The ending fucked me up all over again, but in a different way because I knew what was coming.

the part at the end where she describes the end of winter in Minnesota had me on the brink of tears. We don't know it's heaven. Fuck. And of course the whole premise is so much creepier given the current state of women's bodily autonomy in the US. Fuuuuuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Outing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Infertility

alldebstinations's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Miscarriage

Minor: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

corinnereads7's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

datamonkey's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Violence, Sexism, Pregnancy, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Kidnapping

alsoapples's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Infertility

Minor: Torture and Animal death