Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

6 reviews

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Classism

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Rape

elizabethfaustina's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really enjoyed this! I think it’s underrated, as I’ve always heard that it’s long, slow, and boring, but I found the plot to be really interesting and the characters really awesome. And I love Dickens’s writing, especially with the occasional clever quips and the way he illustrates someone’s character so well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Nothing is inappropriate, but should be for a more mature audience, good for high school.

tmickey's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

annapox's review against another edition

2.75

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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2 stars for the first half; 3.5 stars for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense 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: Yes

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On a reread for work (I teach a Law and Literature class), this remains one of my very favorite classics. Dickens’ characterization and humor is so good, and Sydney Carton rips me apart every time. If you only read a handful of works of classic literature in your life, this should be one of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood

Minor: Sexual violence, Pregnancy

milton's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury