Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Outlawed by Anna North

87 reviews

noragoudie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a really interesting book, unlike anything I’ve read prior. I appreciated reading a western that centered around strong female characters, and I found many aspects of this book interesting and compelling. However, I think execution could have been better and there were iffy aspects about the core messages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Abortion, Racism, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape

louiseelizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Mental illness, Homophobia, Infertility, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Abortion, Racism, Sexual violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Incest, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Minor: Child abuse

abmochapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-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

3.75

A very interesting premise and a well-crafted adventure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Misogyny, Mental illness, Animal death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Abortion

Minor: Rape, Suicide attempt, and Incest

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.0

maybe the most disappointed in a book i've been in a long time. queerness is made both accessory and token, and the story north is trying to tell in no way justifies the alternate history she's created for it. absolutely wild to me that you can set out to purport that biological essentialism is bad (but perhaps i'm giving her too much credit?) and then come up with a book that is... very much supportive of biological essentialism. even aside from my own icky feelings about outlawed as a queer person, so much of what north has done here feels like craft malpractice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Death, Grief, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical content, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Colonisation and Abortion

Minor: Incest, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, Animal death, Cancer, and Sexual violence

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Child death, Murder, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Animal death, Blood, and Suicide

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Rape

acemummerz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Infidelity, Abortion, Violence, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Sexism, and Misogyny

natgeographic's review against another edition

adventurous sad medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion, Rape, and Suicide attempt

alleahwebb's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility and Abortion

petr1chor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, and Miscarriage

Minor: Outing, Torture, and Alcohol

sageysage's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I loved this book! Way more religious undertones than I expected but makes sense for the time period. The book did a great job of having an interesting premise and setting while also making the reader invested in the characters. Kept wanting to pick this up so I could know what happened next. Would definitely read a sequel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Murder, Confinement, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Infertility, Grief, Abortion, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Incest, Blood, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Miscarriage, Homophobia, and Gun violence