Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

93 reviews

ml_schoon's review against another edition

emotional reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility

sarah2019's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow! ❣️ Another beautiful and brilliant novel by Sadeqa Johnson. An historical fiction story of love, family, and motherhood. Two brilliant, smart and strong women with many similarities but vastly different life paths. As a reader, I was taken on quite the journey of emotions. Anger, disbelief, annoyance, hope. My emotions ran the gamut. But the best feeling of all came at the end. The ending was just perfection. 🤍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility

Moderate: Sexual assault

kath_erine__k's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

moniipeters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Classism

tee_tee_tee's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤!
𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭!
𝟏𝟎/𝟏𝟎 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, and Abortion

enlamont's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, and Classism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Police brutality, and Alcohol

chinelo_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

ruffian23's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Rape and Slavery

hckilgour's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

2.5

So I will say the book has good narration, likable characters, and an unsettling root in history. But the plot was… lacking in certain aspects.

My biggest issue was that it took over half the book for how the two women’s lives were even relevant to reveal itself. Which made me sit there and be like… what is the damn point. This could’ve easily been fixed but starting with grace/Wilhelmina being taken from Ruby, then backtracking to how it all started.

The epilogue left me wanted. Cool we know how Eleanor and family are doing. But then to have Ruby show up as the optometrist and that’s it. Like is Ruby still heartbroken by what happened, does she and shimmy ever work things out?

I’m also confused as to how the doctors thought a fourth miscarriage for Eleanor could’ve been life threatening? 

The historical aspect of this book is extremely unsettling. Worldwide having a baby before marriage carries a stigma. But to thing young girls who found themselves pregnant were treated so poorly and literally had their children stolen from them is sickening.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Abortion

helenehannailona's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-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? No

5.0

This book explores female strength, motherhood and race - in the setting of the segregated US in the 1950s. Heartwarming, sad and profound, this book is an inspiring read. 
<Spoiler>And the way you see Eleanor‘s and Ruby‘s story slowly interlacing… the ending, when they finally meet, didn’t leave me, even after I closed the book. Do they know how they are connected? Will they know?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Pregnancy

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Abortion