Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

11 reviews

beccaj11's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

The writing is beautiful, but the book moves slowly for a while. It’s a heavy story with a lot of loss and grief, but the magnified look at a marriage under hardship and a town deeply rooted in its history was incredibly well done. What stopped me from giving this 4.5 or 5 stars? A truly devastating ending that I found completely unnecessary. This book has so much heaviness baked into it and just as the sun starts to shine through, it is torn apart again and honestly, it made me so mad. This writer is an incredibly talented storyteller and scene painter, but I will never forgive them for that ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Violence, Misogyny, Abortion, Infidelity, and Animal death

Minor: War and Terminal illness

katesbooknook's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Racism, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Cursing, Miscarriage, Grief, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Abortion, Sexism, and Ableism

Minor: Cancer

bookswithmybulldog's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infertility, Child death, Pregnancy, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, Infidelity, Car accident, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

sarah2438's review against another edition

I just don't think this is going anywhere for me. It's heavy on the visuals, lots of names, and not a whole lot is happening with the plot. It reminds me of character studies, which I'm not the biggest fan of. We keep hearing about graphic miscarriages, birth defects, and animal deformities, yet the characters continue to use and drink the things that are obviously poisoning them and everything around them. Of course it's not obvious to the characters (partially because of the time period) but that sort of makes me want to scream.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer and Infidelity

maregred's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Miscarriage, Abortion, Infertility, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Racism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Racism, and Xenophobia

dwager's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Miscarriage, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Abortion, Infidelity, Racism, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, and Suicide

prof_pelon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexism, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Abortion, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Racism

marierad's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racism, Violence, Pregnancy, Infertility, and Death

Moderate: Abortion, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Medical content

rivbug27's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Colonisation, Violence, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, and Vomit

rishel's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Infertility, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal death and Infidelity