Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

38 reviews

ispeakpurple's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

This book was heartbreaking in the best way. Even knowing what was coming, the ending was a solid punch in the gut. I stayed up until 2am to finish it because I had to see it through. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

stephnew's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Pregnancy

fiddlesticks_23's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.75

It was just ok. I didn't expect that one of the main plot points would be

the protagonist's friend's cancer diagnosis and struggle

- there was nothing to indicate this in the description. Also, the big reveal gave me an uneasy feeling:

I just can't understand a mindset where you would sleep with your best friend's fiance on the day of that friend's funeral. And then to explain it away as grief - it all just seems wrong to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infertility, and Terminal illness

thefemale_nickmiller's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

Loved the little twist at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Infertility, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

shelleys_shelf's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

sarahflanders's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

emwright_33's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

sjones0056's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I disliked so many things about this book. But I think the author does a fantastic job depicting the loss of a love one. And more so the journey of having someone heathly to being in hospitals and looking after them. A few chapters of this book left me bawling. 

So although, I  despise Dannie as a character, and hated the last two chapters of this book, I’m walking away with I love for this authors writing. I will definitely give her other books a gander. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Grief, and Medical trauma

andromedawashere's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• 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? Yes

3.25

While this book had a decent set of characters and good representation in the form of female friendships, the ending lacked any meaning. It was as if the author remembered what the story was supposed to be about and knew she had to wrap it up.  Initially, it was predestined that Dannie would sleep with a new man in a new apartment in a part of the city she never would've considered living in. Yet throughout the rest of the book, that premise kept getting lost. We, as readers, were constantly reminded of the fact that Dannie and David were a solid couple, Aaron and Bella were deeply in love with one another, and Aaron would never do anything to hurt her. In the ending, there was no indication of anything but passing sexual tension between Aaron and Dannie. But in no less than 30 pages, the author was able to make Dannie and David break up (after just one fight and no reasonable conversations between the two afterwards. We don't even see David after that!), Bella was killed off (deeply expected all things considered, but it was still able to feel rushed), and Dannie and Aaron sleep with each other with no rhyme or reason. Personally, I felt like the author only included the ending so she could A) wrap up the story quickly and B) so the ending matched the premise of the book, even though we know the characters (Dannie, not so much anybody else) have changed and developed and the ending would manage to make no sense. After all we have learned about the characters, I can truly say that Aaron would never cheat on Bella, especially with her best friend. We know that David would never break off his seven-year-long relationship with Dannie after just one conversation, because since it is in his nature to reason things out, he would most likely sit her down and look through options of where their relationship could go after realizing that Dannie doesn't want to marry him (after this, he would probably break up with her because of her lack of commitment and love for him, but it would not happen after just one heated conversation). Overall, I truly did like this book; the pace, the conversations and the micro observations of life and love were all exceptional. But the rushed and out-of-character ending messed up my perception of the book. So to preserve the wonder of the first part, but also make known how the ending was awful, this book very much deserves 3.25 stars.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

cielo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• 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

3.25

Not a love story about romance, but a love story about friendship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Alcohol