Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake

15 reviews

strangeeigenfunction's review

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

miggyfool's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Drug use

tina_reads's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

A bit too much about medicine for me, but I still enjoyed it. But I thought it was a standalone so I am pretty upset with the ending and I don’t think I’ll read the next one, at least not right now. Overall, I would say this deserves almost four stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Vomit

michanikos's review against another edition

It was weird and gross. I don't need a description of a woman's pubic hair, caked in blood post-birth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy

msjk427's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I've been in a historical fiction mood lately, plus, having recently read The Other Einstein and Half Life (about Marie Curie) this drew my attention. While the content is highly technical (the authors include a lot of 1840s medical procedures) and blatantly anatomical, I enjoyed the character development of Nora, Daniel, and even Horace. It was also interesting to see how primitive medicine seemed at the time. And while there was a slight lag in the middle and I'm not a huge fan of enemies to lovers,  overall, I really enjoyed this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Death of parent