Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

31 reviews

alexisdawn's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Classism

Minor: Infertility

lindsayreads21's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Book 2 in the Wayfarers series doesn’t follow the same group of characters that we fell in love with in Book 1, with a few notable exceptions. This time, we get to follow Pepper (who we met in Port Coriol as a friend of Kizzy and Jenks) and Sidra (who we have met before, but it’d be a horrible spoiler if I gave you too much here). This book gives us Pepper’s backstory, which is absolutely heartbreaking, through flashback chapters. In the “present” chapters, Pepper is trying to help Sidra find her place in a strange new environment in which she’s incredibly uncomfortable. This is a beautiful story of growth and overcoming adversity, found family, and sentience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism and Animal death

Minor: Infertility

fancy_cryptid's review against another edition

dark hopeful fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This book is amazing.  It is much darker than the first book in the series, and yet the ending is beautifully optimistic.  I highly recommend it.  I need to read this again just to admire the structure - I love how this was put together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Infertility

Content warning - no ED but note that a p.o.v. character endures extreme, medically significant levels of starvation for a long time - this is a major part of the book.

kastix's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Death, Infertility, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

rororow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

cornfusedsnow's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Abandonment, and War

_david_'s review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

This story was very different than the first part of the series. There was more focus on two main characters rather than an entire crew. Although the story felt less special/unique than the first book to me, I did enjoy reading it a lot.

I enjoyed the short chapters, it made the book a real page turner. It was a very heartwarming story about purpose and hope with plenty of frustration in between. I liked how the book ended as well. To me the highlight of the book was the chapter when they're in a ship with Tak. It made me "wow" out loud. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

Minor: Deadnaming and Infertility

A description of hunger/food discipline/an underweight body is given because of tough survival conditions.

linblythe_pub22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Infertility, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.75

Wow, what a story! Far darker than the first book in the series, but with the same themes of found family, healing and growth that made it worthwhile reading for me. This book also focuses on the theme of feeling at home (whether in a space, with others or within your own body). Of course the world building is fantastic too, as I’ve come to expect from Chambers, and the political, social and economic systems are interwoven through the narrative to provide plenty of moments to reflect on our own world. Overall a really satisfying answer to many of the unresolved questions left by book 1. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Slavery, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness, Infertility, Violence, Pregnancy, and War

prufrockpreptooth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I'm crying. Of course I'm crying

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Slavery, Medical content, and Colonisation