Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

A Influencer by Ellery Lloyd

34 reviews

avidreader8725's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense medium-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: Miscarriage and Suicide

Moderate: Kidnapping, Child death, and Infertility

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

ju_harue's review

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

O thriller em si, não curti tanto, tinha potencial mas não me pegou tanto, acho que não foi tão bem trabalhado quanto almejou ser em algumas formas dos desenrolar dos fatos.
Porém as discussões sobre redes sociais, os impactos que os influenciadores podem exercer nas vidas dos seguidores, a exposição, o que é verdade e o que acaba sendo o trabalho; isso achei bem colocado, a um ponto de questionar sobre o que consumimos meio automaticamente, como refletem em nós e o que iremos expor. A construção dos personagens achei um tanto quanto confusa, me pareceu querer abordar vários tópicos e características que algumas vezes se divergiam em outras atitudes dos mesmos, fiquei com a impressão que queria abraçar muitas coisas e nao tinha necessidade de tanto.
Em resumo, não foi um livro incrível pra mim, mas também não foi horrível. Tem vários gatilhos que deixarei listados no Storygraph para quem tiver sensibilidade (e que podem ser spoilers).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Violence, Death, Child death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death of parent, Hate crime, Stalking, Torture, Medical trauma, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Mental illness, Blood, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Eating disorder

amberjackonski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, and Infertility

Moderate: Kidnapping and Stalking

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

haleysversion's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Vomit, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Grief, Suicide, Infertility, Murder, Medical trauma, and Stalking

modernthymes's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I would have given this book a higher rating if not for the ending.

Dan whining about Emmy's job during the whole book (while being financially useless himself) only to have a complete 180 after he's able to take over the account and capitalize on it himself. What a scrub.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Child death, Medical content, Suicide, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Infertility

thewellreadlabrador's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, Abortion, Infertility, and Child death

danaslitlist's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.0

What was the point of this book? Honestly,  what was the point of that ending? Because if this was supposed to be a critique on social media and the dangers of mommy bloggers why the hell would the author attempt to make us sympathize after everything we witnessed? Is that a commentary on how bad guys win? If so even that failed spectacularly.

I’m so mad that I wasted my time but even more mad that this has the bones of a great story but absolutely fumbled everything else 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, Child death, Kidnapping, Stalking, Infertility, Grief, Abortion, and Mental illness

reshyo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Stalking, and Child death

Moderate: Abortion and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility

kamrynkoble's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I chose to tackle my BOTM TBR with this one and only saw it’s really low rating after I’d already started. 

First off, all of the “mama” culture quips were super cringy to me. I’ll give a pass on the Britishisms but since I’m from the US they weren’t speaking my language. I’m not sure what will make you hate this more - if you actually love “inspiring/raw/honest mama” influencers, or if you detest them. 

My biggest logistical complaint was the antagonist’s POV being inserted in italics, randomly, in chapters that were labeled as the husband or wife’s POV. It was confusing at first and I still don’t get that choice. 

The thriller part of this story was interesting. Some red herrings fooled me. In the end it wasn’t exactly twisty, but very depressing. After so much lead-up the climax/final challenge was swiftly resolved and I’m just left feeling badly for the antagonist. 

That is especially because I did not really like either of the parents. I obviously can’t connect with them as a childless person, but there are some pretty detestable, horrible choices made here. And even worse, they didn’t learn from their mistakes. There’s no redemption here. Maybe that’s the point. 

I would pick up something by these authors (it’s a husband and wife duo under a pen name) again. Not sure I need a hard cover of this one but it certainly held my interest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Child abuse

trhines23's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Excrement, Grief, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Vomit