Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

5 reviews

olga_vino's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Outing

fieldofhats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Read for Fiction Writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abortion, and Abandonment

lilmor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense slow-paced

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

one of my best friends, a deeply enigmatic middle-aged woman named Aura, emphatically recommended and lent me this book. in retrospect it is exactly the type of thing she would recommend. almost didn’t finish multiple times, powered thru 4 her. experiencing a lot of complex emotions rn; disgust, pity,  tenderness feature prominently. i cannot recommend this book and i cannot give it a star rating. miranda july is a talented writer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Grief, and Abortion

grannycat's review against another edition

medium-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

0.5

Honestly, this book made me feel sick. Take the content warnings seriously - it depicts some very disturbing sexual relationships. One such relationship is between a

man in his late 60s and a 16 year old girl, described in explicit detail and never once portrayed as something harmful. In fact, the young girl seems to exist only as a romantic rival for the older female protagonist.

The protagonist

has detailed sexual fantasies about becoming various men and raping the much younger woman who lives with her. One of these men is the girl’s own father.

All of this is glossed over and just used as character development for the protagonist (who doesn’t develop meaningfully anyway). I really wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. It has its sweet moments, but most of it is weird and fucked up and not worth anyone’s time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Self harm, Vomit, and Antisemitism

dhritigupta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

3.0

a very weird and unlikeable book! but also i liked the last 100 pages more than i thought, and understood the characters more than i wanted to! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion