Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Push by Ashley Audrain

69 reviews

parkyparkpark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, and Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

mortiffa's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-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

Well, jeebers. This one was heavy. I knew it would be, going into it, given the subject matter.

The writing is simply beautiful. Poetic and risky, but stunning and pays off. My favorite thing about this was the writing.

I also really enjoyed the characters, the complicated relationships all throughout. There were things that felt a little tropey, sure, but Audrain really knew how to execute these tropes, so that doesn't bother me.

I really, really enjoyed this one. Shout out to Val for recommending this one to me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, and Suicide

lilacvictim's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide, and Abortion

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Murder, Medical content, and Death of parent

kimveach's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.25

I couldn't put this book down.  It covers the dark subject of when a mother doesn't bond with her child and how that affects the relationship with her husband.  Much of the mother's problems come from her history of how her grandmother treated her mother and how her mother treated her.

This doesn't sound like it would be a "fun" book to read, but it's well worth it.  The writing is excellent and I kept wanting to know what would happen next.

It has flashbacks to her mother's and her childhoods which can make it a little confusing if you prefer a more straightforward and linear story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Miscarriage

smehra's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body shaming, Stalking, Abortion, Bullying, and Child abuse

exorbts's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

-First off this book is not a thriller and I am completely fine with that since I didn't pick it up because of this aspect, I picked it up because I wanted to read about a mother-daughter relationship (not this kind Per se, but that didn't hinder my experience).

-It is a dark psychological drama of 3 generations of mothers and how each one of them affected her daughter's future and view of the world of motherhood, and it was absolutely scary to think about.

-I LOVED how this book discussed grief and loss in a heartbreakingly beautiful way.

-The ending was not to my liking

Spoiler

IMHO, it would have been more impactful and interesting if the mother's suspicions were wrong

but again I enjoyed the mother-daughter relationship discussion so much more to not think about the ending.

-There are some topics that really intimidated me like giving birth and the aftermath and repercussions on the mother's body and mental health, marriage(the wife-husband relationship).

-Overall, this book was slow, dark, twisted, mind-boggling, hard-hitting, and hard to put down with beautiful writing. A great experience.


P.S: a theory of the cover and how I interpret it: two faces that make a womb-that interpret motherhood\(mother/daughter)\(mother/mother)-. The overall picture of butterfly-that interprets the (Butterfly-Effect)of how a small action can result in large differences in the future.
so like how the experience of a woman as a daughter and a mother can influence the experience of her daughter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Stalking

Minor: Sexual content

mommarex1221's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I read this in less than a day, which is something I've never done before. I could NOT put this down. Enthralling, well worth the read. I absolutely recommend it, although I would suggest that the content warning is reviewed, as there are a lot of triggering topics explored here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Grief, Miscarriage, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Excrement, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

readsalot's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

A real page turner

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Suicide, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content

piligomez's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, and Self harm

caties_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

MASSIVE TW FOR CHILD/BABY VIOLENT DEATH, CHILD ABUSE, SELF HARM AND GRIEF. Can't possibly overstate how much you should not read this if you are sensitive to any of the above, they're very explicit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Stalking, Torture, Violence, and Vomit