Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down

3 reviews

lumakip's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

5.0

So well crafted, this very emotionally wrought book by Jennifer Down is a fictional account of a single person's life... the book journals through the pain and suffering of child abuse inside the Australian foster care system and subsequent harrowing life of losing children to SIDS at an early age …this book goes thru some things in very earnest and raw ways that its impossible to not be sucked into emotion...this is not a fun read, but its very honest, shocking, and gorgeous in its painful sentences   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Drug use, Death, and Child death

balfies's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

It's been said before but good grief. This is an excellent book with truly gut wrenching, revealing prose, and it is also deeply, deeply sad. Incredibly bleak and richly emotive story about the trauma of the foster system and how state violence fails women and children. If you're thinking of reading this one, have a fun book lined up afterwards, and know that it hits every trigger warning under the sun. But I must emphasise: this was very deserving of the Miles Franklin, and is an incredible piece of literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Violence

theshelf_edit's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, Child death, and Alcoholism