Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

8 reviews

cassie_books8's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Homophobia, Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Abortion, Grief, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Child death, and Rape

fictionalsarah's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent and Incest

Minor: Miscarriage

smartie_chan's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Incest, Miscarriage, and Rape

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective fast-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? No

4.0

Possible spoiler - read if you want to know what chapters to skip for a specific CW:

Detailed depiction of rape/incest in Ch. 18
Abortion and anti-choice propaganda/experiences in Ch. 30

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Incest

Moderate: Bullying, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Suicide, and Outing

Minor: Vomit, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

moodreaderlesbian's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

When I packed this book to take with me for visiting family over the holidays I didn't remember what I'd read it would be about when I bought it. I started reading it in order to avoid family drama and this was the perfect book to do so, I read another family's drama to ignore my own. I could not put this book down and read it in 4 days even though I'm easily distracted and a slow reader.
This book was more mysterious and dark than what I'm used to and what I expected but the cover did warn me it would be like that so that was on me. Nevertheless, the story was very intriguing and to quote Captain Holt from B99: "I didn't know what was happening, and then I thought I knew what was happening, but what I thought I knew was happening wasn't what was happening." 
Since having found sapphic books I can not bring myself to read books that don't involve any wlw characters or story lines and this one was the perfect example of how you can write a story with a sapphic character without the main topic being a wlw romance. 
All in all I highly recommend All the Bad Apples but I advise everyone to check out the trigger warnings because it discusses and mentions very heavy issues.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol and Miscarriage

stelepami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Outing, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

frutista_freeze's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

While I admire what this book was trying to do and bring awareness to, the reveals at the end took me out of the story and made me roll my eyes.

Dina was really the one who wrote the letters??  Omg Rachel got pregnant... and  Mandy got pregnant twice!1! ! What a shocking moment

I also found the family tree a little hard to follow while listening to the audiobook. As far as characters go, the core four (Dina, Finn, Ida, and Kale) were all severely underdeveloped . I also completely missed that Finn was biracial until the very end so there goes the racial diversity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Moderate: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Trafficking

misssleepless's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Sexism

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Grief, and Homophobia

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide, and Vomit