Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn

37 reviews

mgromero's review

challenging dark reflective sad medium-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

4.5

One of the recommended books at my library and wow, so glad I picked this up.  Thin but packed full of nuance and emotions. I will definitely be purchasing and rereading this book. Half a star off only because at times it was almost too much “show, don’t tell” which made it difficult to stay in the story at times. Really hope Zin Rocklyn has given interviews on this book because I am fascinated to hear more about her mind behind the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Sexual content, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, Child death, and Pregnancy

virgilsinferno's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Very descriptive of the process of birth.

scarroll178's review

adventurous dark 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

3.5

I liked the body horror. I also liked the MC and the weird, fucked up dynamic she had with Ket. 

But the ending felt pretty

anti climactic. Maybe if the MC had felt the presence of her family there as she destroyed the ship, or maybe if Hirat and the rest of the crew had tried to attack her first, I would have been more invested. But the way she just walks up to them and destroys them without a word… I don’t know, I guess I was just hoping for more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, and Death of parent

mostlybees's review

2.5

I read this novella for the Sci-fi & Fantasy book club that I'm in. This was decent, and I really like the premise of it. While I wouldn't call this scary, but the things that happen are horrific. The depictions of pregnancy and birth were not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Abortion

alainral's review

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Abandonment

discarded_dust_jacket's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

My rating of this book is based entirely on personal preference and not necessarily a reflection on how good or bad it is. I could see someone with different tastes than me absolutely loving this, and that’s totally cool.

This is one of those books that is purposefully unclear for the first, like, 75%, until you’re granted some grand revelation that’s supposed to make it all make sense. Except I still had more questions than answers at the end of this story, and feeling lost the entire time didn’t make for a very enjoyable reading experience for me.

The writing was beautiful and descriptive yet very cryptic in nature, which made it hard to connect with the protagonist and the story. I think I’d need to re-read this two or three times before having a clearer understanding of what’s going on. There’s definitely some allegorical meaning at play here, and if I had to guess, something to do with generational trauma.

Huge trigger warning for pregnancy and childbirth which is depicted in probably the gnarliest way I’ve ever encountered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Body horror, Grief, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Gore, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement and Infertility

Minor: Excrement

honeyvoiced's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Body horror

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Medical trauma

Minor: Miscarriage and Child death

vanesst's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.25

Unremarkable save for the ending and a few other bits throughout that were intriguing. Maybe this story would've benefitted from being a 350 page novel bc it would've answered some questions and made you (or ok, me) care more about Iraxi or the other characters or the story itself that worse than not caring about, I found super silly at points. Though the point was to be lyrical and mysterious and blah blah and it didn't work for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

rmphyllis's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Sexual content, Death of parent, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury