Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

11 reviews

hollymd's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Infertility

lilbookowl's review

dark mysterious slow-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? N/A

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, and Animal death

Minor: Infertility

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.0

Switching POVs between Irene, Miriam, Carla, Theo, and Laura! Also sometimes short chapters of an excerpt from Theo’s crime book, so I kind of liked the “book within a book” aspect. His book sort of reflects the main plot, in that we get switches between past and present and can’t rely on any one narrative over another.

A quick, easy read although predictable (I guessed two major plot twists within 50-60 pages). Some minor twists I didn’t see coming so that was nice at least to have some surprises!

I liked the slowly revealing of everyone’s secrets but didn’t particularly like any characters other than Irene. I did like the relationship between Irene and Laura also!

Good ending, it was wrapped up fairly neatly but with some open ended possibilities. I thought the pacing was also well done. I definitely enjoyed Girl on the Train more than this and I’m curious to read more from Hawkins! Apparently based on many other reviews, you either love GotT and hate this one or you love this one and hate GotT 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Grief, Violence, Death, Alcoholism, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment, Fatphobia, Ableism, and Infertility

Minor: Incest, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Car accident

em_gauts's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Violence, Death, Blood, Child death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, and Cursing

Minor: Incest, Infertility, and Infidelity

wy_woman's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Grief, Blood, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Gore, and Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Infertility, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Medical content

nicoles_reading_corner's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Infertility, and Kidnapping

laurena's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I’m not sure why everyone thought this was twisty turny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

mydearwatsonbooks's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Xenophobia, Car accident, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, Rape, and Kidnapping

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Incest, Vomit, Fatphobia, Dementia, and Death of parent

emily842752's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Kidnapping, Murder, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Infertility and Self harm

katbrookhart's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Dementia, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, and Miscarriage