Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

4 reviews

littki's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Dementia, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

jminaprisc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

beautifully written and reflective story focusing on a few days in the narrator’s life as a newly independent young adult/vampire 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Dementia, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

lidia7's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

A very unique and special book, left me thinking a lot upon finishing it. Definitely has reread potential. I loved the art descriptions in this and that the author managed to create a relatable vampire. 

Do not read if you're triggered by descriptions of eating disorders, this book has disordered eating throughout its entirety. Check other TWs as well because it can be upsetting to read and definitely has pronounced horror elements (but the horror isn't supernatural always which I think is amazing and very interesting). 

This book managed to do and say a lot under 200 pages! I'm not sure, if I keep thinking about it for longer than I have it might become a favorite. Thought-provoking and emotional books are where it's at!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Dementia, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

nickoliver's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

It didn't have much of a plot to speak of and felt more character-driven, but I liked that about it. Kohda wrote an interesting depiction of vampires. Lydia, the main character, was technically only half-vampire, since her father had been human, and her mother had turned her a few days after birth. Especially the relationship with her mother was interesting to me, because her mother hated herself for being a vampire and punished herself for being one, and she'd raised Lydia with the same kind of mindset. For example, she only drank pig blood because she saw pigs as dirty and didn't think she deserved to consume anything else. It gave Lydia a kind of obsession with human food, which she couldn't eat, and the exploration of that topic kept me reading.

It could get a bit boring sometimes, though, and the format of the book wasn't really to my liking; it had long chapters and even longer paragraphs, which made reading a bit exhausting sometimes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Grief

Minor: Infertility, Sexual content, and Colonisation