Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

24 reviews

rebeccaquinton's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

jo_d's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Miscarriage

bookycnidaria's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Racism, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

kgrace_s's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Abortion

alexandramrtin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious medium-paced

4.75

atwood had a big task of turning a fact into fiction, and she nailed it. she added just enough fictitious elements to embellish the history, while still keeping the ambiguity as to the truth of the matter.
the imagery is beautiful. i don’t know if i’m primed to pick up on motifs and ideas in atwood’s work as we went very in depth in handmaid’s tale for IB, but i’m getting it. everything makes sense, everything is so well crafted.
story itself is good. the premise/skeleton of the story is fascinating, especially giving the fact that it really happened! as for the added fictitious details, they felt so real and were so well embedded that the book felt both like accurate reality, or a brilliant work of fiction. 
i would definitely read it again, as i’m sure i missed some details!

only reason i removed 0.25 is because grace marks does not end up with who i was rooting for the whole while but alas

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Alcohol, and Classism

jolibon4e's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

Rarely is there such an unreadable and boring book. To be honest part of it may have been that I had completely different expectations but I am very disappointed. Truly I have no idea why the points of view were constantly changing, why was there so much description of random stuff that did not amount of anything. Like, the only thing I get from the book is that men are inherently sleazy and evil and all women ever do is suffer. Sure, but I don’t need 400 pages of this, there is nothing profound in that? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Rape, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fatphobia

ldoppstadt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Murder

Moderate: Gore and Abortion

sarah_zaffiro's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

We love an unreliable narrator! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Murder

Minor: Abortion

katievh's review against another edition

challenging mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Abandonment, and Alcohol

annxmcd's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Abortion

Moderate: Sexual assault and Forced institutionalization