Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino

6 reviews

itsheyfay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy

blackthornfaery's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cozywithraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I feel like the book had really good bones and an interesting premise. Some things could have been described better, a lot of passages were hard to follow. I also kind of felt like there were some threads in the beginning that didn't need to be there that were randomly brought back up in the last 3 pages that just felt random and easily forgettable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy

kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

Thank you to Ellie @ Titan Books UK for sneaking me the ARC. 

This book has a sapphic relationship, an asexual main character and a pan side character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Alcohol

No animals/pets are harmed/die in this book.

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Thanks to Pride Book Tours and Page Street YA for the free copy of this book.

 - NOT GOOD FOR MAIDENS is a queer, witchy, horrifying tale, and I was fully gripped by it.
- This book is gory and haunting, but also full of love and characters itching to prove themselves.
- Flipping back and forth between POVs in different timelines can be tricky, but I think Bovalino nailed it here. The parallel stories unspool quickly enough to keep you interested but not so quickly that things are revealed too soon: you'll find yourself mentally shouting at the characters to put the pieces together.
- The two POV characters, Lou and May, are ace and bi, respectively. I appreciated that challenges they might face due to their sexualities are mentioned, but it's not a book that's full of on the page queerphobia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail