Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

83 reviews

lee_s's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Blood, Medical trauma, Child death, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Lesbophobia

bessadams's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexism, Blood, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Death, Grief, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Vomit, and War

racheldallaire's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

It took me a little while to get into this one, but once I got into it I enjoyed it. It gives a very unique perspective into the influenza pandemic, maternity wards, and nursing in Ireland at that time. It would be a slightly higher rating if Donoghue used quotation marks-it drove me crazy to realize halfway through a sentence that someone was speaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Blood, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

There is a LGBTQ+ relationship mentioned briefly.

kiwialexa's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

leontyna's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

It was a great book, although a bit terrifying. I thought I knew a lot about midwifery from my family, I was so wrong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Pregnancy, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Vomit, Sexual violence, and Violence

helzie_2023's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child abuse, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Gore

mjlease08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Abandonment, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

stargirlmolly's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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: Blood, Child death, Grief, Miscarriage, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Classism, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide, Child abuse, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Ableism

Minor: War and Violence

arayo's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse

sarahflanders's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Death, Grief, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Gore, Miscarriage, Vomit, Child death, and Child abuse