Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

147 reviews

hayleycorrigan's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, and Self harm

Minor: Abortion

chemreader's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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

2.75

So many characters, plot lines and topics that are touched upon and then just dropped like a hot potato without ever being resolved or treated with the required depth. Additionally, the ending should have just been open in my opinion for the readers to make up their minds and challenge their own biases as the characters have to. 
I also now know way more about bees and beekeeping than I ever imagined. However, the purpose of all this information for the book is still not clear to me. At best, the bees served as a blunt metaphor for the unfolding plot, but in most cases it did nothing for the story since everything was spelled out anyway. If everything bee related was deleted from the book, it would be at least 100 pages shorter and neither plot nor character development would suffer.
Lastly, this would have been a dnf for me, but am reading for a book club, so had to push through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

lupitaestela's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Outing

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion

mossyjoe's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Mad Honey is a great read for someone who wants to explore the idea of self criticism and recognition of privilege without reading something as confronting as CRT books. The story is well paced and provides the opportunity for women to be the focus in a genre which usually focuses on men.

This novel also was incredibly well written in regards to transgender Identity and the experiences/questions that transgender people ask themselves.

Overall not the best book in the world which will change your life, but a great read well worth your time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Abortion

norahc's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Self harm, Transphobia, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Medical content and Abortion

bree317's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Blood, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

cocoanut7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

Heavy read. I’m glad I got the exposure even if some of the writing choices I didnt like. The twist just super floored me. It was excellently done. That being said,

it drove me crazy that Asher was a suspect because his fingerprints were in her room. No, duh. And then there’s all the talk of manslaughter vs murder but when best friend reveals she was involved everyone’s like “meh. Oh well.” Really did not like that. It was too unbelievable and ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, and Abortion

hreifeiss's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

A competent and well-written murder mystery/courtroom drama with consistent themes and characters you can't help caring about. The organization of the chapters and perspective definitely had me going back and forth because the timeline was a bit confusing. Otherwise, if you like murder mysteries, I'd say this book is for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Deadnaming, Sexual content, Grief, Murder, and Outing

Minor: Abortion

stephanie_w11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Outing

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Abortion

adventureinreading's review against another edition

emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Minor: Deadnaming and Abortion