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a_26_l's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
ashfantastic98's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
clemrain's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Excrement, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail
This shattering story takes place over three strenuous days of a nurse and runner in a maternity ward during the influenza pandemic. It’s a difficult, slow read that dives into the little hours of horrors experienced by the most vulnerable. I don’t really have the words for this book. I had a very vague knowledge of the influenza pandemic. But academic readings don’t do the justice to this tragic period of time. This book does and I think it’s because it’s takes a very small real part of the pandemic and focuses on it. The world is so much more than just the grand scheme of things. I don’t know much about Ireland’s history past the famine most of us are taught about. But of course just like any country, Ireland had its l share of religious trauma. I wanted to scream and yell and cry. The romance was so fleeting but it was impactful. I wish it had been woven into the plot a bit earlier butjoey_marie05's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Blood, and Medical trauma
ellagordonkhen's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Body horror
mxfahrenheit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
bookaneer808's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Over the course of a weekend, the lives of three women become irrevocably entwined as the stakes are raised, battling for the welfare and lives of the women being treated there. Utterly gripping, a book I couldn't put down.
Moderate: Body horror
Set in a maternity hospital in 1918 during the Flu Pandemic, so there are fairly graphic descriptions of childbirth and how it can go horrendously wrong.kathleencoughlin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, and Grief
Minor: Pedophilia, Suicide, Excrement, and War
maggiemercutio's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
- graphic depictions of birth.eniatea's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent