Reviews tagging Pregnancy

Animal, by Lisa Taddeo

60 reviews

hanna's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

I loved this at first (even though it made me feel like I was overdosing on my meds), then I took a break for 1-2 days and now I've realised it's just a really, really weird & disturbing book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Child death, Miscarriage, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Animal cruelty, and Suicide

Minor: Medical content

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer, Murder, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Grief, Alcohol, Stalking, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Sexism, Vomit, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Drug use

daphnemarie's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

Lana del Rey Book Club picks. This is the kind of book that has to be set in California. Incoherent and dizzying, but consuming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gun violence, Death of parent, Violence, Murder, Drug use, Rape, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Stalking

noveltay's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was wild from start to finish. How many horrors and trauma can one person go through?!?! Can’t say more without spoiling, but PLEASE read content warnings beforehand. I did not and I did not realize how much hard topics would be mentioned in graphic detail.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

asummerdream's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I wanted to like this book so much... yet, once again, the advertising was better than the work. I barely managed to finish it.

Nothing happens for 300 pages and then there's too much action, yet somehow I am still looking for the catharsis. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gore, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Body shaming and Chronic illness

ml475's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

Fairly vulgar descriptions and touches on heavy themes. I loved Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women but this felt unsatisfying. Start was slow and doesn’t really get interesting until about 60% through and even after finishing I’m not entirely sure what the plot was as story seemed to get lost throughout 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Child abuse, Death, and Death of parent

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Eh. I liked the ending the most but other than that it was mostly boring and hard to keep track of. All the characters were pretty much the same person and I didn’t really feel like I was there (I get that’s it’s like a letter but still). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment and Ableism

karanextweek's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.25

I hated this book. I hated everything about it. Every single character annoyed the shit out of me. I hated the way it was written, even though my visceral hate from literally page 1 is proof that the writing is good.
Pretty much every type of SA/r*pe is covered in this book. It was a lot. I hated it. Am I mad I read it? Kinda. But I don’t regret it. Maybe I do.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Misogyny, Addiction, Rape, Body horror, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child death, Pregnancy, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Death, Pedophilia, and Self harm

jmcampbell57's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Vomit, Blood, Drug use, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

laynemandros's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexism, Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Infertility, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Stalking, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Eating disorder, and Blood