Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

13 reviews

carlytenille's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

_david_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

1.5

I think I'm just not a fan of books in which the covid pandemic plays a big role. Nearly everyone currently alive has lived through it and witnessed its horrors or conspired that it wasn't that bad, but this book will not convince them otherwise. The plot twist was well written, but I still didn't like the story after. If you do not like the first half of the book, you will not enjoy the second.  

To me personally, the main character was very self-centered and spoiled. A big theme in the book is that she "evolved" on the island to fit in better. She barely did though. She just got lucky with some villagers. The only moments I enjoyed was her making art with Belize, but the rest of the book made my eyes roll. 

I think there was still a big clash of what the main character and I find important in life. I would have done the exact opposite of each choise she made in the end, except for perhaps the career choice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Vomit, War, and Classism

jennipea382's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

wshawl36's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

i literally lost the book. i wanted to finish it and hopefully i can find it again and finish it 

Update: I finished the book on Audio and then later found the book. quite literally one of the most beautiful stories I have ver read. So incredible and captivating. Jodi Picoult did so well on this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Self harm, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Dementia

mandi4886's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Infertility, Sexual content, and Vomit

costamiri's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

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

2.0

This book is about Covid. Didn't want to.
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This would normally be out of my own genre-spectrum but the description seemed interesting and I wanted to challenge myself a bit. For as long as the teased action took place, I was entertained in some way, but I found the length of the chapters very confusing. The book has 18 chapters packed into two parts, but nine of them are only one or two pages long, resulting in stressfully long chapters of around 30 pages. Diana is stranded on a lonely island and it is quite nice to see her struggle her way and build relationships with Gabriel and Beatriz. I was interested in their journey as people but their trips around the island felt quite repetitive and boring. Then the turn, the great split in the middle, happened and it felt like betrayal. All the before in a new light, and many new questions. I was disappointed at that and the remaining second part was very different in a way I wasn't able to enjoy. Her relationship to Finn is very weird during the plot. As they are disconnected, his parts are solely about Covid, about a pandemic she has avoided, every single email just tells COVID from March 2020. It's annoying. And it got worse later in the book. The book description hinted nothing to that, contrary I thought it would tell more about an escape. Disappointment. Finn did not reflect the person she is in love with or was. Not even *a person*, Finn is just the tool to tell about covid, a window about the weeks when this pandemic started. The ending of the story again was very predictable and exactly what I expected after reading the description and the epilog ending was even more predictable. Not a good feeling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Dementia

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Like the best of her books, the author looks at separation during the beginning of the Covid pandemic with so many insights.  I loved the characters, the setting, and the plot.  You can't ask for much more than that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Infidelity, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

stephbakerbooks's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

I feel like I either love Jodi Picoult's books or I hate the ending...and this one fell into the latter category! :(

The beginning was slow but I had heard that there was a twist in this one so I kept reading because I wanted to know what the twist was. I kept trying to guess the twist too, and at one point I was convinced I had it right...plot twist in my head, I was completely wrong, I didn't get anywhere close to guessing the twist lol. But I did actually like the twist. It brought new life into the plot and kept me reading for the latter half.

But then...the ending happened and it made me realize that I did not like Diana at all the whole time I'd been reading. Diana of course does a lot of introspection on the Galápagos and realizes that she's not as happy as she thought she was (I feel like this is not a spoiler to say as it's pretty typical of main characters in these kinds of books). Which is fine, she can be unhappy and try to find what will make her happy, good for her—except that she never really does explain what about her life makes her so unhappy and what will make her happy. And maybe she doesn't know yet what will make her happy, but by the end of it I just felt like I still knew nothing about Diana and why she was so unsatisfied, and I was frustrated by her choices at the end when there was no real explanation for why she was making them.

When she breaks off her relationship with Finn, she can't even explain to HIM why she's doing it, let alone herself or the reader. Finn wasn't perfect, sure, but there was no good reason given for why she would do that. Especially since he'd been in the hospital for months dealing with covid patients. I just thought she could have handled the breakup way better. Also she never explains why she cheated on him, even if it only happened in her mind. It was just all odd to me.

I liked the supporting characters, but we never really get close enough to anyone else for me to feel really strongly about them. This book had some interesting thoughts on the pandemic, but it also seemed filled with a lot of cliches and not enough depth.

Maybe I just wasn't ready for a pandemic book yet. Regardless, I don't think this one will be very memorable in my mind. And My Sister's Keeper is still my favorite Jodi Picoult book.

Thank you to Libro.fm, the publisher, and the author for my ALC!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Lesbophobia

shiran_fa's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

auscaz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexual content