Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Água Fresca Para As Flores by Valérie Perrin

5 reviews

jo845's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Beautiful translation with lots of unexpected twists. Sad but I didn’t cry. Lots of choices made by the characters that I don’t agree with but I couldn’t put it down and finished in two days.

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Vomit, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

filipa_maia's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, but it grabbed me from the first page.

More than a story about love and loss, this is a story about emotions, how to deal with them and how to accept the things that life throws our way. This book is a brilliant journey through grief, self discovering and love.

Just to point out a few negatives (and why this wasn't a 'five star' book): I think this book was unnecessarily long (too descriptive about things that don't matter to the plot) and sad (there is not a single happy couple throughout the book, and practically 99% of the stories are about people who betrayed each other).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Animal death and Cancer

layanelaco's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

meus grande vai se fude toma no cu pra personagens específicos. pra violette, o mundo, o amor e a felicidade.

[ música: the truth untold - bts]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Pregnancy

cynicalraven's review against another edition

And here it is, the worst book of 2022 even though we're just a week in. This book is a mess. The author changes pov so many times it's difficult to keep track. She also switches frequently from first person to third and I don't know how to tell you, but it's not something that you should be doing. The plot itself it's the most boring thing ever. Everyone has a trauma and has sex. That's it. That's the plot. Are the straights ok? Frankly all the sex scenes are unnecessary. Even more so because the majority of them are just people cheating on their spouses. It's impossible to understand which genre this books falls under because Perrin decides to mix a bunch of them without a clear logic. 

the book is tragic because 4 children die. The author literally said "I want to write something sad. What's the saddest thing ever? Children dying." Innovative.

 

Finally, the prose is... not it. Perrin wants to create this nostalgic, poetic atmosphere but the result is a style exercise with random phrases and quotes thrown at reader to show how serious and dramatic the book is but contribute nothing to the story. 

you understand that Léo is dead before reaching page 50 but the author tries to make it the book's turning point along with dickhea- I mean, Philippe's death. I was rolling my eyes at this point because of how predictable this is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Incest