Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

7 reviews

linda_wolf's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

emmiemopho's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

my “Whyyyy stephenn???” List:

Bag of Bones 1998 

-referring to a child as being an exotic taste

-“Breasts” 

-His classic racism towards Japanese people 

-The way he mansplains what masturbation is 

-Blue balling 

-His sex scenes take me out 

-The question of “did I rape the 5 year old?” In his sleep and wasn’t necessarily upset about it 

-The list of all the things you can (and shouldn’t) call a black man 

-At first screws his wife and then R’s her corpse in dreamland 

-V.C. Andrews is regarded as his professional enemy (interesting) 

-Mal-formed Dwarves might turn him on? Was that a joke? Why was that placed during a fantasy thought??? 

-He always has a tangent about fat people 

-Women in need of help are to be sexualized completely. 

-“Stroking” 

-Just some other proof the main character is him: MC talks about naming the book he’s writing “bag of bones”. 

-Regains a trust point: MC does not like black people being called bad words-although is this black people generally done or is it specific to the band he likes so much? So maybe not so much of a trust point.

-Over half way and he mentions something the little girl says sounds Vietnamese & exotic

-Whenever someone mentions how young the MC’s crush is, he imagines her in a vulgar way and seems to have an obsession with her being just above legal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia and Blood

woodselisa76's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

This is the first book I've read where I wanted to throw it across the room more than once. The first book where I wanted to stop and keep reading toward the end at the same time. I loved Mike, Mattie, Kyra and Jo's characters. The Epilogue tied the end up and I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

badgerwaffles's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kingsteph's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

shrektien's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I’ll be honest, this book holds a ton of misogyny/unsettling thoughts from men about women shed in a positive light or a “that’s just how we are” light and it was hard to read sometimes. Huge fan of King but this one I could’ve skipped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

alisonnicholslol's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

Highly recommend! Very likable characters, made me cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy