Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

21 reviews

hanngigi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Dementia, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer and Infertility

tessazwaan's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Avery (& everyone in the “present” basically) was a really flat and just generally not so well written character, which annoyed me a lot. The rest of the book is way better. 3 stars because it just didn’t feel like the perspectives chosen were the right ones for the book. Wanted to see more Rill, May and Arcadia and way less Avery and Trent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Death of parent

trinloyd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book way more than I anticipated. It is heartbreaking and gut wrenching, and so well written. The author did a beautiful job telling this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Infertility, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism

sarahh22's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

Really enjoyed this book, an exciting tale and historical fiction! Sad it’s based on true events, but could not put this story down 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, and Abandonment

nadia_luq's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

chelsearednecksrising's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

amberlinanderson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

This book will make you experience every emotion: love, sadness, fear, disgust, happiness, anger, hope. I had no idea what I was getting into, and I’m too young to have ever heard of this real life scandal. I loved this story so much, but it also broke my heart. I definitely recommend giving this a read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Torture, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Infertility and Rape

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

mandi4886's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

spaghettireads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

I know that people don’t read full captions, so I feel like I want to say off the top that I don’t think that I recommend this! It was a book club selection, and while it did provide a good discussion, I don’t think that any of us really loved this.

The sub-genre of historical fiction that generally features women looking away on the cover is not one that I usually reach for. While I did find the writing in this relatively engaging, and I did want to keep reading it to find out what the twist was at the end, I thought that the book had a lot of issues. Perhaps the fact that a real life historical tragedy has been written with the vibe of a mystery is the problem. As one of my friends pointed out, it felt as though just everything bad possible was happening to the characters.

And while I said that I was waiting for the final details to be revealed at the end, a lot of the book felt very predictable. My book club also talked about how the portrayal of people of colour, and mostly Black people in this story was pretty terrible.

So, as I said I wouldn’t recommend this. Thanks as always to my book club friends for a great discussion 😊

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Dementia, Grief, and Death of parent

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Violence, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder