Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Go as a River by Shelley Read

32 reviews

shaytalksbooks's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

A beautiful, coming-of-age story full of wonderful heart-warming moments and completely heart-breaking ones. I cried.
I'm not sure how historically accurate some parts were, but it was so beautifully told that it didn't bother me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Racial slurs

Moderate: Miscarriage

emilybee54's review

emotional medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

Moderate: Infertility and Miscarriage

sarahbsews's review

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Torture, Violence, Racial slurs, and Hate crime

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Animal death, Blood, Alcoholism, Infertility, and Miscarriage

alyssatuininga's review

emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Car accident, Hate crime, War, Death of parent, Death, Miscarriage, Animal cruelty, Violence, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Infertility

rhiadav1's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow…….. just wow. I finished reading this book in tears. It is such a powerful story about overcoming loss and hardship. I loved the character development for Victoria - she is inspiring. 

I highly highly recommend reading this book. I was hooked from the first page and didn’t put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, and Alcoholism

Minor: Racial slurs, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

beccajreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

This was tough to read at times, but beautiful too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, War, Racial slurs, Torture, Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Racism

Minor: War, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

mthereader's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Racism, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Abandonment, Miscarriage, Death, Grief, and Infertility

Minor: War

seventhswan's review

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

2.75

I can appreciate that Go as a River is a beautifully descriptive, thematically complex book that a lot of people will really enjoy, but despite seeing this logically, I didn't particularly like it. The first half of the story was tediously slow - I enjoyed the second half a lot more, but they felt like different books to me. I also found that a lot of nuance, depth, and sympathy was given to characters like Victoria's father and brother, while more interesting characters like Wil and Ruby-Alice were deprived of agency and left quite one-dimensional. Their portrayals didn't match with what Victoria claimed to feel about them. And, honestly, I just didn't care about or connect with Victoria that much even though she was objectively going through many difficult things. Pretty much every other character seemed to have a more interesting perspective on what was going on.

The descriptions of the book's setting and the changing time periods were the highlights of this story for me, and I did feel emotional in places purely because of the amounts of suffering various characters went through. However, everything wrapped up so neatly and relied on so many improbable coincidences that it was just not a book that really worked for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Domestic abuse, and War

Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

katharina90's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

A slow, sad, reflective book with interesting themes, some of which I wish had been explored more (or differently). Some elements of the story felt rushed or underdeveloped. At times it also just dragged.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: War, Ableism, Animal death, Colonisation, Animal cruelty, and Miscarriage

zoesreads_'s review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Miscarriage