Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

4 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racism, Colonisation, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Child death, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Grief, Police brutality, and Sexism

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Violence

kuporeads's review against another edition

reflective

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Miscarriage

Minor: Racism

sarahyjackson's review

emotional informative medium-paced

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

3.5

Made me want to learn more about the construction of the Panama Canal - and I appreciated having, even fictional, a different lens into this history. 

Largely though, the characters and their journeys felt kind of meh and forgettable to me? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Grief, Miscarriage, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Sexual content and Slavery

bibliomich's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad slow-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

Arguably my favorite read of 2024 so far, The Great Divide falls within a genre that I usually find challenging: historical fiction. When reading historical fiction novels, I often find myself getting distracted by the factual elements in the stories (wanting to look up dates, events, settings, etc.), Cristina Henriquez adeptly weaves in important details about the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s and its impact on surrounding communities, while primarily focusing on individual characters' narratives during this time. I was able to get totally swept up in the story while still learning enough about the context to understand what was going on. The cast is *vast* (I cannot emphasize this enough), and while I initially had to devote a lot of mental energy to keeping track of all the different stories, I also felt that each story was treated with such careful attention to detail that by the end of the book, I was truly invested in all of their stories, particularly the ways in which they overlapped.

Thank you to NetGalley for my advanced copy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Medical content, Infertility, Classism, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Racism, Colonisation, Abandonment, and Miscarriage