Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

5 reviews

asiriarmzl's review

dark emotional reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

nrstevens7's review

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Pregnancy, Infertility, Abortion, and Terminal illness

Minor: Homophobia and Child death

snoutsiru's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.25

CHECK CONTENT WARNINGS BEFORE READING!!! this book is so incredibly sad and so many effed up  things happen it’s unreal. I can’t tell if the commentary in this book is valuable or obnoxious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Outing, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Infertility, Homophobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Body shaming, Bullying, Abortion, and Ableism

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, War, Vomit, Violence, and Toxic friendship

kchoike's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

As a mentally ill fat girl, you know I had to pick this book up. It was incredibly dark but a definite page-turner for me. It felt fairly dated in how it handled topics such as gayness, fatness, and race. I wasn't the biggest fan of the ending; I was hoping for a little more catharsis after everything the book put me through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Infertility, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

annie_rosser's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

1.75

This book was clearly radical and progressive in it's time, but I think it's pretty dated now. The discussion of trauma is poignant and very human and raw, but the plot does revolves around some decenly fat-phobic & outdated concepts.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abortion, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Self harm