Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The Favor by Suzanne Wright

10 reviews

prettynerdy3's review

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infertility, Abortion, Bullying, Cursing, Suicide, Vomit, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Stalking, and Violence

marinajonesreads's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

1.75

Definitely one of the worst written books I’ve read in a long time. Sad, because the concept was interesting. And I first thought the grumpy side of things was going to be fun. And the DID representation was cool. But I quickly found myself editing the story in real time. I’m not overly judgmental when it comes to romance book — if it is fun and entertaining, I’ll enjoy it — but this one was so very poorly written. I skimmed a chunk of it and only finished because I wanted to know who did some of the stuff. It was a lot of telling me what to feel instead of showing anything, tons of exposition, overly detailed in parts that didn’t need it and not enough detail in parts that didn’t. I wouldn’t recommend if you’re in the mood for a simply marriage of convenience trope book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Miscarriage, and Infertility

culzean's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Classism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Stalking, Suicide, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Violence

kerrythefire's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

Hard to know how to review this book. Hard to describe the book and my experience with it. 

I liked it. I liked both MCs well enough and their love story kept me engaged. The doubt and misunderstandings the FMC had, especially re the MMC's feelings were believable, not annoying, given who he was. I think the first person POV helped keep the relationship interesting because we as readers also didn't know what was in the MMC's head, we only had the FMC's thoughts and observations to go off of.

It was probably longer than it needed to be but it also kinda worked. The pacing didn't feel slow or off, I think the author just gave us full scenes and dialogue that other books often skip over, but not it a way that dragged the story down. It just felt like we were observing things in a more real and linear timeline than other stories that employ big time jumps.

Despite the whole fake marriage trope, the conniving side characters, and some heavier topics and the main characters' backstories, this book felt like a moderate-conflict and moderate angst level book. Maybe because it was a bunch of smaller conflict points that popped up throughout the story and got resolved fairly quickly vs. a long build up to just one big conflict. 

This book could have been high angst, high conflict, high emotion and dark, but somehow it wasn't... I wouldn't go so far to say it was cozy, but it was kind of an easy read (or in my case listen). Good spice too!

Definitely check the content warnings. Most of the triggery content is part of the MCs backstories and described through character dialogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Classism, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Vomit, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Suicide

Minor: Infertility and Abortion

soniajoy98's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism, Mental illness, Bullying, Cursing, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Addiction, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Infertility, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage, Blood, Stalking, Abortion, and Cultural appropriation

finnickdeservedbetter's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

Tropes:

Marriage of convenience, fake relationship, boss x employee, grump x sunshine, first comes marriage then comes love

Rep?

Dissociative identity disorder (FMC'S father), childhood trauma (FMC & MMC)

Written review to come

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Child death, and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Infertility, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

hopeful fast-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

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Infertility, Abortion, Pedophilia, and Car accident

amotoquinha's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Infertility, Mental illness, Child death, Death of parent, Self harm, and Domestic abuse

steffandbooks's review

emotional funny tense 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

3.75

This book was a whole vibe that's for sure. It started off strong like most of the marriage of convenience books. The male character came up with a lame ass reason to fake date and get married, then obviously, as the story, goes along, they fall in love and stay married for good.
Well, Vienna is a really strong as character. She knows how to handle Dane due to having worked for him for a very long time and Dane is super grumpy. Like super super grumpy. I've never come across another one that is grumpier than him. Anyways, I liked how he was able to read every single emotion from her. He knew her so good already, no point of lying at all. 

There are quite a few heavy topics being discussed, e.g. Vienna's father had DID, her mother wanted to sell her to her drug dealer when she was a minor, she went into foster care, her foster sister didn't like her and abused her. Dane was also abused by his father, he lost his twin when he was eight and he doesn't have a good relationship with the rest of his family, except for maybe one of his brothers - Kent. I was like, jeez, give the characters a break.

I wasn't really surprised about the end, saw it coming from a mile away because I know a jealous woman when I see one. I did like how Dane and Vienna almost every time communicated with each other. There were multiple conflicts presented in the book, but they never actually broke up, mostly because of Dane just being a possessive ass man and not letting her leave until they talked things out. What I didn't like were the sexy scenes. I was looking for one sweet or let's say normal moment, but it always ended up in getting f** and in the same position. It looked liked that Vienna enjoyed it at least every time. Although their time in NY was a bit questionable because

she told him no multiple times and he just pursued it nevertheless. I didn't think it to be an overly no go because Vienna didn't actually mean to say no. She said no because she thought it wasn't a good idea to sleep with him again and because they agreed it should never happen after the first time happened. She didn't say no because she didn't want to sleep with him, quite the opposite. So that's why I was kind of able to overlook the situation.

Overall, it just took me so much time to get through this book. Idk might have been my kindle app, but felt like an eternity and usually I get through 350 pages-books in two days max. I also found it exhausting sometimes to just read through the characters days for a whole chapter. There is no real plot her, it's more of a vibe kind of book, which I do enjoy occasionally as well, but in some instances it just felt boring and I didn't want to read about the character putting dishes into the dishwasher and then going upstairs to read, take a shower and so on. Felt to me like the author just wrote something down to have the pages filled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Child death

Minor: Infertility and Bullying

cup_of_rosie's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I will say that I enjoyed this and the ending was very cute, and it was nice and spicy, but although I enjoyed the buildup of the relationship and the way they interacted there were certain comments that the characters made in the book which just didn’t sit right with me. For example, the FMC at one point in the book said “Seriously, if being an asshole burned calories, you’d be fucking anorexic.”, now there were certain other instances where they said things and I was like hmmm, but this one just really stuck with me because anorexia is a serious condition, it’s not something to joke about, or use as a way insult someone. So, this just really didn’t sit right with me, I did finish the book because I wanted to see where the relationship ended but I don’t think I’m going to reread due to opinions like this being made within the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Infertility