Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The House Witch 2 by Delemhach

5 reviews

earlgreyjedi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

Book 2 of the House Witch provided a lovely story of how Finn and Anika grow their new relationship, Finn accepting that he has people to depend on, and the crew gearing up for the war ahead. This is my first time listening to the audiobook version so I was a little shocked by the different voices at first! But overall it was a wonderful narration and a fantastic story. Seriously, this book had me laughing out loud, jumping for joy, and crying for characters too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

Moderate: Infertility, Slavery, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Additional warnings:

premature birth, depictions of difficult birth, depictions of Dissociative identity disorder

tanacef's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Pregnancy

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death, Infertility, Sexual content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

rosatyrs's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Transphobia

secondhandbookshelves's review

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This book picked up immediately where book one ended, and stopped in the middle of the events it had been building toward.
There was more frustration, less character growth, and some very heavy handed foreshadowing, but overall still a fun read!
A lot of my favorite characters were barely mentioned (I think one knight had maybe three lines & Hannah only had one memorable conversation. Eric warranted two paragraphs. Kraken barely gets any story line & his exploits seemed like the most fun.)
There's also characters we meet & never hear about again, so I'm wondering if they'll show up in book three or if they were used as a distraction/filler, since they didn't really add anything to the plot besides making the rehead tired.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Grief

discarded_dust_jacket's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

This book would be fine (I liked it better than the first one to be honest) if it wasn’t for one very uncomfortable scene:

There is a character in this book that, when the protagonist meets them, is described as a man in a dress using a feminine voice, and is deliberately addressed using he/him pronouns, which set off all sorts of transphobic red flags in my mind. It’s revealed that this character is not in fact trans, but has multiple personalities inside of them, at least one of which being a woman. This didn’t make me feel much better, because even though the character is not actually transgender, the fact remains that the stigma associating transgender people with mental illness is very real and very harmful, and it just gives me a bad feeling about the entire scene/character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility and Miscarriage