Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Watership Down by Richard Adams

10 reviews

indigobird4000's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Excrement, and War

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

Every character of any significance in the book is a rabbit (or bird), so these are the best-fit content warnings. Pregnancy loss, for example, does not happen in the same way for rabbits as for humans (

reabsorption back into the body

) so may be less distressing for some readers

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Torture, Violence, Excrement, and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

gabriella_'s review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This made me feel like a little kid again which I know isn’t an easy feat. I was squirming reading this feeling so tense and anxious for battle rabbits in a society some parts even felt apocalyptic. An absolute page-turner this was awesome

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

macliffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

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

5.0

My favorite book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infertility, and Excrement

Minor: Cursing, Miscarriage, Sexism, Torture, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, and Pregnancy

sweetslowreadin's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

One of my favorite books from my childhood and I'm happy it's still a very good read all these years later
I will admit slow paced books are almost always a struggle for me so that's a negative but everything else is pretty good, though i think some of the slow pace has to do with the few story chapters in between the chapters with our main characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Miscarriage, and Blood

darkefyres's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Sexism, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Miscarriage

janneke2302's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

I was hesitant to read this book at first, because it's very different from what I usually read, but I ended up really enjoying it. There were some slow parts that were a bit tough to get through, especially the chapters where they told each other stories, but other than those parts it was a really fun heartwarming and adventurous story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement and Classism

Minor: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

revisable4510's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

what i was expecting: warrior cats, but sadder

what i got: a meditation on nature and place

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage

hoggboss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

afion's review against another edition

Had to put this down due to the sexism unfortunately. Enjoyed the story up until the characters decided to go find female rabbits for the sole purpose of breeding with them. Thought this was a beloved children's book, not an animist version of The Handmaid's Tale. The worst thing is, the patriarchal rabbit societies aren't even biologically accurate as rabbit societies are actually matriarchal.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage