Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

12 reviews

randirush's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Murder, Infertility, Death of parent, and Child death

winterhartarts's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Ableism, Body horror, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Chronic illness, Vomit, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Death of parent, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Bullying, Cursing, Torture, Abandonment, Death, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Acephobia/Arophobia, Sexism, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Infidelity, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Grief, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

emberbhill's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Infertility, Body horror, Confinement, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Infidelity, Torture, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, and Violence

malalaisee's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

What did I just READ?

I greatly preferred this to House of Salt and Sorrows, but take that with the grain of salt that this book is kind of way more insane in its twists and turns. The pacing is pretty typical for the first half and breakneck in the second, but I didn’t find it overly jarring. 

The only thing that may not hit for everyone like it did for me is that the characters themselves, or at least the main pair, are easily the least interesting part of the book. I do think that the wheelchair user representation is super intriguing—the conversations between the main two about it are very sweet, the accommodation of it in the main setting is cool, the fact that we’re not ignoring ableism’s existence is nice!

Overall, dying to know what happens next, hoping this isn’t a standalone??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Body horror, Child death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Infertility, and Ableism

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Infertility, Pregnancy, Drug use, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Ableism, Infidelity, and Violence

readsavvy's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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? No

3.5

I’m torn on this one - it’s incredibly atmospheric, immersive, gripping, a unnerving gothic fairytale turned horror and the plot twists were well executed. But there’s so many trigger warnings, I can’t call this a light read or easily recommend it without warning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Abortion, Child death, Sexual content, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Chronic illness, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Death of parent, Infertility, Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Classism

ash_bees's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Child abuse, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Rape, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Murder, Death, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gore, Murder, Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Physical abuse, Torture, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Vomit, Blood, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content and Infertility

eviemayhem's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I wanted to like this book as much as I liked the first one. I suppose part of my issue is that I didn't read the synopsis and just assumed it would pick up where it left off with the same narrator. The book starts off well, and up until the last 100 pages, I was really enjoying the book.

The climax- Amazing.

Everything is downhill from there. It felt much too fast and then somehow the true villain (objectively) of the story is no longer the villain and it all resolves too quickly. It is intense and overwhelming and messy. The writer is amazing, but the pacing on this one was just too fast at the end to be satisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Child death, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Ableism, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual assault