Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan

13 reviews

slimejules's review

emotional

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Vomit, and Abortion

jennastopreading's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Suicide

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Stalking, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Vomit, and Outing

mynameisrebecca's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pregnancy

cokester's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Eating disorder

readbycarina's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

nbreezy17's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Rape, Abortion, and Pregnancy

icieri's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Pregnancy

tallycat007's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

avabudavari's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Outing

cassie7e's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

One star for competent writing, one star for prominent queer rep. If this had been marketed as YA instead of adult, I might have had different expectations. 

Maybe I'm just too old for immature teen drama, but I found all the characters offputting and unlikeable. They are terrible to each other and all think they are in the right, or are responsible for all the wrong in the world. I don't think it's unrealistic, especially in how teen girl performers are exploited, but made it very hard for me to root for any of them or really care how their storylines played out.

I also found the "mystery" of Cassidy's depression confusing. It was neither surprising to me that a character in her position would struggle with mental health for years, nor was there ever a conclusive explanation found for her struggles to justify everyone's bizarre interest/confusion about it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment