Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

16 reviews

arnold_shelby's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Fatphobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Medical content, and Kidnapping

I thought some parts of the book had unnecessary exposition, where it felt like one of the story lines was being used to feed specific aspects of history to the reader, however that was short-lived thankfully. I enjoyed this book, it was raw and a rough read at times but I was glad to have read it.

desana75's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Insanely good. Changed me as a person.  Expression of women’s reproductive lives in all their facets and perspectives.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Rape, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Chronic illness

maddiet425's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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

4.5

Loved this book! It was easy to get through which is the most important thing to me. I also loved the subject matter, and the complexity with which it was discussed. I do have multiple small problems with this book though. The multiple POV’s were confusing at times, and Angela’s story didn’t seem to fit in. I also didn’t love how preachy it felt at times, but my biggest problem was the ending. It made no sense to me,

who is the Evelyn we read about at the beginning of the story? Is it the really Evelyn or is it the fake Evelyn? If the real Evelyn is telling her story throughout the St. Agnes chapters (which makes sense due to the yellow booties, etc.) then why does the fake evelyn mention at the end of the story that she wanted to give the baby to her brother?? That was something the real Evelyn wanted! It seems the author was as confused as the reader when writing this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

pinkiefem's review

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

rebar351's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is so incredible! Check the trigger warnings but everyone woman needs to read this book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

texas666's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Abandonment

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content