Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

6 reviews

storeybooks13's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, and Abandonment

regnistegra's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body horror, Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

kulera's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Infertility, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Miscarriage, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, and Gaslighting

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

hm, it's been quite some time since i last finished a book frowning. the snow child is an amalgamation of many beautiful aspects: vivid scenery that makes for several wonderful, stirring scenes--the snow child-making and ice-skating scenes, in particular--filled w/ characters that demonstrate the charm and oft-touching neighborly relationships in the alaskan wilderness, and themes of life's possibilities, found family, nature's breathless beauty. and yet, the thread that holds it all tgt--faina's existence--is flimsy, and unfortunately makes for a magical realizm book that, in my opinion, lacks realism. it feels like a story that teters between a fairytale and realistic fiction, struggles throughout w/ trying to be both and neither, and pulls the rug off my feet at the end. throughout the whole book, the old couple wrestles w/ the wonder and--as is asserted pointedly several times--the "real humanness" of their own snow child, thus the ending makes for a baffling conclusion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death and Death

aerietta's review against another edition

I got just over half-way through the book.

It's an interesting story with a surprise at every turn, but it's just so grim. The little details are beautiful, but it feels like the characters chose to be miserable and are willing to fight to remain miserable, even when good things come up. It just became too hard to continue reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Sexism

Moderate: Infertility, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Suicidal ideation, stillbirth, extreme financial insecurity, extreme injury, gaslighting, isolation.