Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

119 reviews

rametta's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

dumaurier's review against another edition

slow-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

4.5

cried a single dramatic tear when this epic ended. sunja and kyunghee are in my heart forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Suicide, Xenophobia, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Abortion

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia and Deportation

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, and Abortion

Minor: Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, and Deportation

feathers4bookmarks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Best family-saga/ multigenerational-saga I have read. This novel drew me in the way that a grandparent telling a family story does. I wasn’t reading it to find out what the ending was, but more just because I was so interested in their lives and the domestic struggles of the time/place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Chronic illness, Hate crime, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, and Cultural appropriation

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Racism, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Genocide, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infertility, and Abandonment

rachelsbookishlife's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Abortion

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death of parent, Outing, and Classism

tinyjude's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

An emotional family saga set during and after Japan's colonisation of Korea and WWII up almost to the present. It deals with the difficulties experienced by Korean immigrants in Japan, the war, poverty, misogyny, classism and many more. Although fiction, it is still closely influenced by true events and provides an overview of the situation many Korean immigrants endured at that time. The amount of characters and the objective point of view sometimes made it a bit difficult to care deeply about them, but nonetheless I think it is a very important and insightful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Pedophilia

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Abortion

nikolama's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Infertility, Abortion, and Lesbophobia