Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner

9 reviews

amanda884's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Abortion

knunderb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved this book for the most part. Jennifer Weiner is so good at weaving characters together. It leaved a little heavy on the lack of communication trope, BUT I could see how if this were real life, characters wouldn't have communicated certain things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Minor: Abortion

kimmykelly's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Classism, Death of parent, Abortion, Death, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

kaylinvm94's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

mmullaney91's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion and Cancer

lmy612's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-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

3.0

A perfectly hatable family filled with perfectly hatable people. Even the characters who weren’t awful weren’t that great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Grief, Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

kdailyreads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

 So many of the characters made so many choices that then made it hard to like them. Also, some of the plot points were truly wild - like, made me feel both uncomfortable and annoyed because it seemed too far, yet also a little intrigued despite that. This novel definitely mentioned Covid a lot but it didn’t bother me as much as I thought it might going in - probably because there was no discussion of any of the characters themselves falling ill or personally losing someone to it. For example, one character is a nurse and zero percent of the book addressed what her experience during Covid would have been like as a nurse. There were two parts of the book that made me cry because they were truly sad (heartbreaking, really), but actually had zero connection to Covid.  Jennifer Weiner’s ability to write in an an engaging way is very strong and her style of writing draws me in. Plus, I did enjoy all the descriptions of Cape Cod summers. Ultimately, I wanted to keep reading to see what happened. I got to the epilogue and was mad at first because it seemed like there was no way the book was going to wrap everything up in a way that I would feel satisfied with, but then it mostly did. The final moments of the book were particularly well crafted. 


The performance of Sutton Foster on the audiobook narration, I would give 4-5 stars! Definitely increased my enjoyment of this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Antisemitism

lexa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious

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

3.0

This is an average “beach read” type book. I didn’t love it, I didn’t hate it, I was invested enough to push through to the ending. 

You might like it if you are into multi-generational stories with lots of characters, multiple points of view, big drama around every corner, and so. many. coincidences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Sexual content, Cancer, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Abortion

kentuckybooklover's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion