Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

11 reviews

carlytenille's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Abortion

hello_lovely13's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, and Abortion

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Death, Torture, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

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nickeyrc's review

challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion

csh2424's review

adventurous tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Sexual harassment

lucyisabella's review

mysterious reflective 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

2.5

I felt like there were bits and pieces of the story that caught my attention but the stuff in between wasn’t interesting to me at all and was hard to get through.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion

callmebella's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion

ankonyx's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion and Pregnancy

Minor: Gore

constancely's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

It was interesting because I learned some things about China I didn't know about but... The main characters are very dislikeable. The only relevant woman in this book doesn't even have a name, but we sure have descriptions of her body. There's character development but it's for the worse.

The best part of the book is the ending when the girl leaves them all and goes live her own life, really.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion

__hel__'s review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

2.25

it's sucks. like what the hell. genuinely wanted to punch everyone like gross. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer

ephskx's review

challenging mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

the book was good at first but then i just found myself waiting for it to be over.
i don't really understand a lot of the subtext, i think. but it was a very 'real' story in the sense that i cared about these characters and loved seeing all the facets of their personalities.
read the book for school.

rating 2.5 bc it was in between being an okay book and a book that i liked. i found some scenes very uncomfortable to read, especially the one told from an old character's perspective. it was too creepy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion