Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

81 reviews

lena_and_her_books's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

sionnac's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

I loved the writing when it touched on the natural world (and the supernatural). Very sad and the ending was a little strange and unsatisfying. But overall I liked it. Narrator Ell Potter was good, I listened to audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual content

lchelle_bester's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• 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, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Domestic abuse

dearbhlanoonan's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

4% of the (audio)book's runtime was dedicated to an arbitrary, pointless generational family saga of the flea that infected Judith with the plague. finishing the chapter, then the book, and it amounting to nothing was very insulting. i fully recommend skipping the chapter that begins "For the pestilence to reach Warwickshire…"

that out of the way, it was slow at times—part I alternates between past and present, and i felt that the past dragged on while being merely drip-fed the more interesting present—but it's a beautiful character study, heartbreaking and endearing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Sexism, and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

mangogo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book has raised the standard for five-star novels. Beautiful and heartbreaking in the fullest sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual content

howwoolatthemoon's review against another edition

4.5

This was very very good. Probably 4.25-4.5 ⭐ but not five?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

northernlitreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

I really didn’t think I’d like this book at first but wow, did that change. I know it’s fictional but what a believable story. It’s an amazing exploration of fried and people living their lives in a way that is out of the status quo and I just adored it. I really think people will be reading this in classrooms in the future. (I would also argue that if you want to get into reading classics but find them too slow or descriptive this would be a great place to start.) Also, just a moment to appreciate Bartholomew - bless him for being a good brother.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

azyef's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Animal death, and Colonisation

allywesto's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

5.0

I loved this so much. 

The lovely prose, the holes in history filled in, the vivid characters… it’s amazing. 

English majors will especially enjoy this. 

It was so delightful. I’m still in awe and will be thinking about this book for a while. I loved the author’s note at the end about how her idea for writing this came about. Very clever and well done.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content