Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Desperation by Stephen King

4 reviews

lay_kone's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

hannahkate's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage

marleens's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was a wild ride. Lots of gore and violence, but also a great setting with a lonely highway and a creepy desert town. As usual with King I loved getting all the different POVs. There were a few character interactions that I didn’t like, but most of it was great, and of course it’s always a good time when a group of strangers has to band together to defeat the forces of evil. The weird language that is often used by the evil in the book did confuse me sometimes, I wonder if I was supposed to understand it, maybe it’s references to other King books I haven’t read yet? Something else that should have bothered me was the major theme of religion. Lots of God and prayers in this book, and I would normally have stayed far away from it, but weirdly it worked well in the story and with the characters, and didn’t bother me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Xenophobia, and Grief

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Suicide attempt

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I don't know what I was expecting when I first started reading this book but I wasn't ready for it to grab hold of me the way it did and make me contemplate a lot of things regarding God and my personal relationship with faith and the things I believe in. Very spooky, sometimes very deep, but with a lot of questionable writing choices and usage of some words and dated/aged badly ideas but overall, it was an addictive and unnerving read with an emotional ending (to me). I don't know, I have a lot of thoughts but they're all over the place so I can't really explain why I honestly loved this book, but I did. I'd just say, don't read if you're not up for God phenomena, lengthy info dumps, and basically reading about God and stuff. But if you are, then this book is wild, creepy, funny, and has my favorite trope ever, the found family and worth the journey of reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage