Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Homecoming by Kate Morton

35 reviews

dkamada's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Wonderful book but the pacing was not the best. The first 30% is really slow and the majority of the plot twists are in the last 5-10%, but really interesting from multiple perspectives revealing the plot and the book within a book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

fireflyhollow's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Miscarriage and Abortion

katie_arce's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Murder

prncskaters's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

Love everything Kate Morton reads. Saw some of this twist coming but definitely not all of it so she can really keep us on our toes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Murder

gracescanlon's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Ableism, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

polyphonicprairies's review against another edition

mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage

cmklaft's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abandonment

onemumreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Minor: Infertility and Grief

graceolivia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I begrudgingly finished it mostly to find out if my initial theory was right, one of the twists is very obvious the other seemed underdeveloped. As a whole it felt like the pacing was off, it was very slow until the last 3 or 4 chapters which attempted to answer all of the questions in quick succession. I think it would have benefited from more time spent with the characters coming to terms with the developments and less specific details and time in the first three quarters of the book.  

It really frustrated me that Nora was never considered to be incredibly manipulative, Jess seems to forgive her instantly for taking her away from her mother. Polly felt like she should have been the main character, I was far more interested in her thoughts and experiences. It seemed odd that her and Jess never had a proper conversation about why she actually left her with Nora. The pillow lie (x2) never gets acknowledged and apparently multiple people knew Isobel was innocent and said nothing. Marcus seemingly either forgives Meg for killing his best friend and his brothers girlfriend or doesn’t figure out it was her, either way it’s not believable. The idea that the whole thing happened as a snap decision to ‘punish’ Isobel also doesn’t make sense as it doesn’t align with Megs personality, it would be far more believable that Nora did it.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

kiwichill'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Miscarriage, Grief, Gaslighting, and Abandonment