Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams

4 reviews

heather667's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Murder, Violence, Car accident, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide, Mental illness, and Rape

vanesst's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Body shaming

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Car accident, Infidelity, Murder, Death, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Suicide

tangleroot_eli's review

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

First, a couple things I appreciate about this book:

• Our Heroes are pretty bad at sleuthing, and they admit it. A nice choice in a subgenre full of amateur detectives who’ve never investigated so much as a checkbook register but can suddenly solve a murder
• A group of women! Who are friends! And support each other! Rather than constantly tearing each other down!
• Adams has attempted to give the Society members “tragic pasts” and really seems to have considered the ramifications of that for their interpersonal relationships 

So those things are good! And then there’s… the rest of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Misogyny

Moderate: Car accident, Body shaming, Murder, Death, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

kibbles15's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I liked this book, but I did not love it.  I felt that the plot was slow and the characters themselves were not developed as much as I would have liked. I also feel that the sexual content, while mild, was more explicit than necessary. Note while this is considered a "Cozy murder mystery",  several hard topics are discussed in the process as the four main characters get to know each other.  These include domestic and child abuse, teen pregnancy, drunk driving...to name a few.  That being said, I do think the theme of friendship through adversity was a nice touch to the story.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Murder, Medical content, Infidelity, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy