Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

A kegyelem szigetei by Rose Tremain

11 reviews

quinniantheduck's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Child death, and Child abuse

owlish1's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

serenas_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective relaxing sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Medical content, Colonisation, Sexism, Blood, Physical abuse, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

sophiegs's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage and Domestic abuse

Minor: Suicide

lil13's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Infertility, Lesbophobia, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

josie9's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

2.5

only read to listen to katie mcgrath’s voice for 11 hours and 57 minutes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Excrement

jamesflint's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Miscarriage

Moderate: Racism, Gore, and Suicide

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

 Islands of Mercy is a hard book to summarise and review because there is a large cast of characters with many interwoven storylines. At the centre is Jane Adeane. When we first meet her it’s 1865 and she is working with her father, a doctor and surgeon in the town of Bath. Jane is known as the Angel of Baths for the assistance she provides those seeking cure in the waters. After rejecting a proposal from father’s assistant Valentine she flees to her aunt’s place in London, is introduced to Bohemian life and begins a passionate affair with a married woman named Julietta. For me personally the novel was at its strongest when focussing on Jane.

Parts of the novel took place in Borneo where Valentine’s brother, a naturalist, has contracted malaria and is being cared for by a British man who was discharged from the army for homosexuality and is now attempting to improve the life of the indigenous peoples, but in a rather half-hearted and somewhat clueless way. These sections did not work as well for me and didn’t feel well connected to what I felt were the main storylines in Bath.

Tremain wrote some beautiful passages and I loved seeing how themes such as passions (and not just sexual ones) vs conventionality, colonialism, and finding sanctuary played out in different characters and different locations. Bits of this story I really loved but as a whole it didn’t fully coalesce or entirely work for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Physical abuse

laura0497's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

librariangeorgia's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Gore

Minor: Cancer