Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Magpie by Elizabeth Day

43 reviews

amberinbookland's review

medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Pregnancy

stagasaurus's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Infertility, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Miscarriage

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and Gaslighting

velvet_young's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Infertility, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking

lucyyybee's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

This book… Um, don’t know where to start. It was boring, exciting plot twist, back to boring. But within all the boring was also just confusion.

Evil MIL who played small role in book ends up being the biggest issue? Somehow thinking the woman with bipolar / schizophrenia who tried to kill her sons girlfriend was a better fit for her son. Mind you, she’s very stuck up and uppity. So that makes no sense as her son is “perfect” and she would otherwise see Marisa as very flawed.

Also paints mental illness in an odd way. I don’t know. I forced myself through it hoping for a good ending. I was let down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Alcohol, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Grief, and Infertility

curlydanreads's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Grief

madamelacy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

Story told from different perspectives so you start sympathising with one character, change your mind and then change it again. Interesting read but I didn’t love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Mental illness

Moderate: Pregnancy

franticfreya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Infertility, Blood, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment

Moderate: Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Grief, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Stalking

alittlebitofjessica's review

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

A good read with some twists, very good use of different perspectives as well to show the story - story kept the pace well and didn’t feel too long!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape

hodgeonlucy's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Gaslighting, Infertility, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Miscarriage, and Violence

bgoodbookclub's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this one a lot more than I expected! I went into it having the mindset of 'getting through it' but I actually really enjoyed the story. It had a very unique storytelling process of having you root for two people who had every reason to be against each other. It did an awesome job of giving perspective and backstory that fully rounded the characters.

There is a decent chunk of this book that is about trying to conceive, IVF, miscarriages, etc. so if that is something that you are sensitive to, I suggest reading some reviews. That is not something that I have personally gone through so I don't think I'm the best person to speak to it but I think it could be pretty heavy to those going through that. 

I would definitely read another one of Day's book! The twist was definitely unexpected.

A big thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this one!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape