Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

112 reviews

loureadsslow's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.25

At first it was difficult to get into. The deep vein of religious themes was off putting for me as that isn’t really my jam but the further I got into it, the more important that became and helped me understand the characters more. It also fanned my beliefs about how hypocritical Catholicism is which is both frustrating and validating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Miscarriage

meso24's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Violence, Colonisation, and War

annatoggi's review

emotional sad tense 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

loxeletters's review against another edition

dark sad tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

aliyah0's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Miscarriage and Death of parent

jessi_lou95's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Sexism, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death and Excrement

rowanelisa's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

willa_bryn's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

unique_polarizer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

full of idyllic imagery, complexities and reflective attributes. 

Kambili as someone who worships her father as almost god-like comes to terms with the abuse and the gaslighting and religious justifications for what he does. Adichie embraces freedom from this throughout the defiance towards the end of the book and after the events of palm Sunday

a beautiful read, like the rest of Adichie's works, as a debut I felt it was a compelling read, where this compellingness develops in her later works like Half of a yellow Sun and Americanah - characters are fleshed out and plot and characters are well constructed. Not to say this read wasn't. It was a very satisfying read in a sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

_mel's review

challenging dark slow-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

4.5

Most of the book is slow but the end comes very quickly 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Minor: Miscarriage and Racism