Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Heartsick: Three Stories About Love and Loss, and What Happens in Between by Jessie Stephens

7 reviews

vas_17's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Infidelity, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Ableism

Minor: Drug use and Addiction

mads_jpg's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

My Mum encouraged me to read this after going through my first breakup, and it definitely hit a lot of the right notes, but while the stories told very unique experiences of grief, they were all from the perspective of people who'd been rejected, not the rejecter, which was what I'd wanted to read about. There's a specific pain that comes with making that call, and I guess I just didn't want to be reminded of how much it can hurt to be on the receiving end of that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Mental illness

Moderate: Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage and Addiction

sammantha's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I loved this book. Especially the last bit “on romantic rejection.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide, and Gaslighting

frenzyreads's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Body shaming, Cursing, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Miscarriage

melzy__'s review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

jesikasbookshelf's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

2.5

For those looking to read a non-fiction romance, this is for you! The book charts the love and losses of Ana, Patrick and Claire over the course of relationships they feel define their lives.

The book is a look at the real life implications on a person's life when they have the grief of heartbreak to carry without any societal acceptance of heartbreak being a valid grief. It is a great basis for a book and I read it quickly as I always wanted to get to the next chapter of each of the points of view.

I didn't, however, feel emotionally attached to any of them. It felt like I should, like that would help me to feel connected to this. Most adults have experienced the feeling of the world pulling at your insides because you are heartbroken - this book didn't manage to convey that for me. It is non-fiction but reads like fiction, without the clear focus of either genre towards some sort of meaning for those depicted. Ultimately, as much as I see the merit in this topic, I'm not convinced jt should have been centred around these particular people. J enjoyed the introduction and the end essay buy the author more than the book itself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

tiffliu's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage and Mental illness