Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

17 reviews

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Absolutely beautiful prose, easily the best thing about this collection. These are little weird stories that each one I would be excited for in the beginning and at the end of most I felt weren't as weird, didn't go as hard as they should have. The only one I didn't feel that way about was "Cassandra After". I'll read this author's novel, short stories feeling like they just abruptly stopped rather than ended is not something I feel is unique to this author so maybe I'll like her novel more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Gore

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Body horror

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Lesbophobia

savvylit's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

Armfield is an incredible writer. She excels at a simultaneous evocation of creepiness and dreaminess. In the realm of salt slow, a young woman transforms into a bug, a city suffers from an epidemic of insomnia, a boyfriend turns into stone, a divorcee hides out on the seaside.

If you don't already know, I love weird and unsettling short story collections. This is one of the best I have read in recent months! I can't wait to revisit salt slow again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Miscarriage, and Blood

Moderate: Pregnancy

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Animal death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Gore, Murder, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Bullying, Violence, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

megj23's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Pregnancy, and Body horror

hanz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, and Pregnancy

judereadsalot's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Body horror, Pregnancy, and Blood

bethsreading's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I really like Armfield’s writing style. I particularly like how the gothic elements of the stories are ever present in the background, creeping closer as each story progresses. They are unsettling and creative and pull you in. My main critique of them is that quite a few of the main characters felt a bit interchangeable. As they are short stories, the characters wont have as much depth as they do in a novel and Armfield does a great job of building these characters in a short number of pages; I was just left feeling like some of the outlooks and personalities of the main characters blurred together a little. It is a good collection though and I would recommend to people who liked The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Death

Minor: Lesbophobia

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Blood, Death, and Pregnancy

aisabel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Stalking, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship