Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

9 reviews

regnistegra's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

liltakeawaygirl's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Abandonment

vbarsi's review

dark mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Reminds me of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - tense, eerie, learning about strangers through the narrator and discovering a town’s secret’s. I appreciated the change in perspective in narrator. Well written and flowed nicely. Depressing read though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Infertility, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Abortion

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

this was like nothing i’ve read before. this was very unique, moody, and always had be asking questions. it kind of felt like a fever dream.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

sineadw9's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

Melancholic, haunting, gently heartbreaking. Truly sad. The story feels well-sized for its length and manages to fit a ton of emotion into just over 100 pages. The sense of inevitability through the whole thing makes it feel surreal. I especially admire how the author intertwines both characters voices throughout. 

It’s a strong, compelling little read. giving it 3/5, not really sure why, maybe I just wanted more for the characters. Maybe it was just too dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Suicide and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

explicit detail of grief after child loss and murder/suicide

linda_ws's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Death, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

samanthaleereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicide, Vomit, and Abortion

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

2.0

I think this would’ve been marginally better if I could read French; it felt like some of the prose was lost to translation. 

That being said, this was super underwhelming & kinda felt like a high schoolers attempt at writing ominous literary horror. Extremely choppy and disorganized with really promising passages every so often. The premise makes the antennae seem much more important than it is, and there is very little horror in this book. why people are recommending this in horror lists is beyond me. even calling it a thriller is tenuous. it’s mostly just depressing & makes less than 200 pages feel endless in a bad way 

not for me. also, this isn’t included in the rating but the ebook formatting was ABYSMAL; not sure who to talk to about that but yeah. did not do the cover or the typeface justice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

elysianbud's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.0

Very prettily written with some lovely turns of phrase. Eerie atmosphere. Predictable plot, but I think that's the point--it's tragic, you know how it ends because it tells you near the beginning, the interest is how they get to that conclusion. Characters are not nice people at all though, makes it very hard to care about them. 
Short, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail