Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

68 reviews

lisas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Miscarriage and Violence

mkhaupt's review against another edition

challenging 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

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

beccaj11's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The writing is beautiful, but the book moves slowly for a while. It’s a heavy story with a lot of loss and grief, but the magnified look at a marriage under hardship and a town deeply rooted in its history was incredibly well done. What stopped me from giving this 4.5 or 5 stars? A truly devastating ending that I found completely unnecessary. This book has so much heaviness baked into it and just as the sun starts to shine through, it is torn apart again and honestly, it made me so mad. This writer is an incredibly talented storyteller and scene painter, but I will never forgive them for that ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Terminal illness and War

katesbooknook's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, Sexism, Abortion, and Murder

Minor: Cancer

ledegennaro's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Infertility

Moderate: Death and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death

adriso's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

The way that this story brought the reader along the entire journey through all the twists and turns of life was nearly cinematic. The pace gave me a lot of time to warm up to the characters and inevitably love them all even through their flaws and challenges. It was an entirely emotional and vivid experience to read this novel and I loved almost every second of it.

It was relatable, funny, and heartbreaking till the end, and I completely unraveled towards the end. It felt like I came crashing down with the characters durring their greif and heartache.<spoiler/> This is the type of book I would spend months on and appreciate all the time I invest in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny and Abortion

Minor: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

rosie_b's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Abortion

ola_wnka's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

hollybearhouck's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.25

A slow burn, one that brought me to tears multiple times.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Infertility, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

ssternle's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Medical content, Abortion, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury