Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

227 reviews

dtzypig's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident, Mental illness, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault and Eating disorder

mary_do_12's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-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

2.5

let me be honest, i read through four years of autumns life and i couldn’t have been more unaffected. it felt like in those four years, nothing at all happened.

but i was ready to sort of accept all that, when i was hit in the face with BOOM
CHEATING TROPE
(sort of)
BOOM
ACCIDENTAL PREGNANY
(two people! that are in high school!! from their first time!!!)
and i lost it.
you lost me.

the reader knowing the end from the start was supposed to be mysterious and cool, probably, but it didn’t feel like it.
where was the tension?
where was whatever was supposed to make this book interesting?

also, autumns suicide attempt was very uncomfortable for me, and that‘s simply because the whole book had a way of being shallow, and throwing something that serious in there right at the end felt very odd and almost romanticized.

could not conform to this book very much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, Suicide attempt, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death, Vomit, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual assault, Miscarriage, and Rape

_choopchoop's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt, Death, Car accident, and Pregnancy

lindsayvandamme's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

rachelranelli's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Car accident, Grief, Death, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

brooklyndays's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Sexual content, Alcohol, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

Minor: Miscarriage

drewanslee's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Pregnancy, and Suicide

jimothyj's review

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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: Suicide attempt, Death, Car accident, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

kyrakorres's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

so honestly, at first it was hard for me to get into this book because the writing was kind of all over the place, but as it went on, I actually really liked it because it really felt like it was a teenage girls mind going through high school. this might be an unpopular opinion, but I personally love when an author can write characters that are not the most likable. At some point, I did find autumn really annoying but overall I thought it was a great storyline and I really liked certain elements of friendship and family and stuff like that but I just wish the writing was a little better. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

cats_n_plants_n_cats_n_plants's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Death, Car accident, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt