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haileychan's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
salema's review against another edition
4.0
Spoilers-This was a pretty good book. I can’t claim that I enjoyed myself because it was basically a series of traumatic events. It felt incredibly slow and monotonous in the beginning but got more interesting once she met the Mormons. I appreciated that we got endings for most of the characters we met (even though they couldn’t be called happy). I thought the book was a pretty accurate representation of how an extinction event would bring out the worst in people. It did throw me off that the survivors had such a hard time finding guns in America. That point kept getting brought up and the polar opposite would haveactually been true. I was a bit surprised that the MC didn’t get a personal ending. She was professionally satisfied but we were given no clue about how other parts of her life played out after she found a home.
thelightsarenorthern's review against another edition
dark
sad
medium-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? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder
immabehazzie's review against another edition
5.0
Easily one of the best post-apocalyptic stories I’ve consumed. That goes for books, shows, and movies.
While reading ‘The Book of The Unnamed Midwife’ I was reminded heavily of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, the book, not the show. However, there was something about this book that just hit differently. It was disturbing and raw and a hard read but it was enthralling and near impossible to put this book down. I would recommend this to everyone but it is heavily triggering.
The Book of The Unnamed Midwife does something that most post-apocalyptic stories forget about and that is that it recognizes and really focuses on connection. That there was a life before and that there was and is still desire and hope. People are still people after the world we know ends. The story puts you through a rollercoaster of emotions of horror, terror, sadness, and some hope, and even as you read the horrors of the strong controlling the weak in a lawless society it’s hard to not hope that something good might happen.
I can’t wait to read the next two books but I’m going to have to wait a while because this was heavy.
While reading ‘The Book of The Unnamed Midwife’ I was reminded heavily of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, the book, not the show. However, there was something about this book that just hit differently. It was disturbing and raw and a hard read but it was enthralling and near impossible to put this book down. I would recommend this to everyone but it is heavily triggering.
The Book of The Unnamed Midwife does something that most post-apocalyptic stories forget about and that is that it recognizes and really focuses on connection. That there was a life before and that there was and is still desire and hope. People are still people after the world we know ends. The story puts you through a rollercoaster of emotions of horror, terror, sadness, and some hope, and even as you read the horrors of the strong controlling the weak in a lawless society it’s hard to not hope that something good might happen.
I can’t wait to read the next two books but I’m going to have to wait a while because this was heavy.
readwithke_'s review against another edition
4.0
This was my first time reading a book like this and it frightened me. I was very paranoid after reading it. It is a real page turner if you like these type of things.
emianner's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
thehosk's review against another edition
4.0
interesting book which absorbs you into the world and the plight of the character
the world seems very plausible
good read
the world seems very plausible
good read
katherinefontan's review against another edition
4.0
It was hard to read at times because of how realistic this post-apocalyptic novel is. Told form the perspective of a midwife following a mysterious 'flu-like' disease that has spread, mostly prominent and deadly in women and children. I enjoyed how this book did not sugar coat the realities of dark urges, the instinct to survive- be it having to kill someone, religion, and sexual desires. Absolutely horrifying and eye opening, this book did not waste any time getting into the gruesome reality of the world.