Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

One Day by David Nicholls

38 reviews

marissagero's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

2.0

I had to take a break from this book 50% of the way through because it put me in a rut. I’m glad I finished it, but it was hard to get through. I didn’t like that every chapter left off on a cliffhanger and the next chapter jumped a year into the future. I felt like a lot of cliffhangers were never fully “wrapped up”. I also kept finding myself thinking “I can tell a man wrote this book” every time Emma’s appearance was described. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

denijaaa_s's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

okayyy, man likās, ka grāmata būs tikpat laba vai pat labāka nekā seriāls, bet jāsaka, ka es biju diezgan vīlusies. nu nevar būt tā, ka diviem cilvēkiem visu laiku ir melnā strīpa dzīvē, un tad, kad parādās cerības stars par labāku dzīvi, tad emma vienkārši ņem un nomirst. skatoties seriālu, es biju vairāk moved nekā lasot par to grāmatā. viņi abi ir sarkanie karogi, un es pat nezinu, kas mani nesaistīja šajā grāmatā. varbūt rakstīšanas stils? varoņi? es pat nezinu, bet es ļoti, ļoti centos, lai man iepatiktos šī grāmata, bet tas diemžēl nebija manos spēkos. :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Infidelity

Minor: Infertility and Death of parent

nineinchnails's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad medium-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

4.5

this feels a lot like a couple of my all-time favourite books i've ever read which is probably part of why i enjoyed this so much but it isn't perfect. just to get this out of the way, it was annoyingly obvious that this was written by a man at parts - emma was mostly well written (i kept forgetting she was written by a man) but this showed a lot in the way that the other women were written in this book. just straight up caricatures. it also felt like it would've done numbers on tumblr (for the same reasons The Fault in Our Stars did) but despite all of that i really loved this novel. i loved the characters - they were complex and flawed but they felt so real and it made it even more frustrating to watch them constantly fuck up. the ending hit me like a truck and i'm so glad i picked this up. this is (almost) everything i wanted Talking at Night to be! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Excrement, and Vomit

elenilkd's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.0

Read this immediately after watching and falling in love with the show. I actually loved the parallel, and felt like the book filled in the gaps of what I questioned or wished had happened in the show.

I appreciate how both Emma and Dex are deeply flawed here, and seeing their growth throughout the very real ebbs and flows of life in your 20s-30s. While both of them could be so frustrating at times especially in relation to each other and tip-toeing in the will-they-or-won’t-they style, I found this to feel much more realistic, relatable, and reflective than other romances you’d typically think of. The style in which you only get to see “one day” out of the year is both captivating as it is annoying emotionally, but really pushes you to see just how impactful 24 hours of time may be in the span of life. It otherwise allows room for some hope and imagination of your own when thinking about what must’ve occurred between dates.

Nicholls has a wonderful grasp on depicting emotion and grief that really makes you reflect in my opinion, especially on the fragility of time with One Day. Genuinely one of my favorite reads in a very long time, and I’ll probably come back to reread it a few times more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Car accident, and Death of parent

saskia_ej's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

armstmad's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infertility, and Alcohol

adiloretto's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

"When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, and Sexual content

briggsy39's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Vomit, and Death of parent

alix0zz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

3.25

I read this after watching the Netflix series and I would say that helps a lot. I found this book fun from time to time and also pretty enjoyable. But I also found this book boring and annoying in some parts. For example at the beginning I hade a hard time getting into the book and also some where in the middle it was a little bit hard to keep reading. But over all I liked the book and their for I am giving a 3.25 star. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, and Alcohol