Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

The Perfect Nanny: A Novel by Leïla Slimani

9 reviews

honeymoan's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

you really wouldn’t expect anything that has happened in this book. the foreshadowing is brilliantly done and even if you can kind of guess what could happen, you’d never expect it to be as cruel as it was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Death, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Body horror, Classism, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

schorlett's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Child death, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Classism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Racism

Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, and Alcoholism

mandi4886's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Gore, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Stalking, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

rakizaka's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

ending felt rushed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Transphobia, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, and Sexism

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Medical content

vaniavela's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racism

untitledlullaby's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 I have no qualms with the book. The writing was fine the characters were complicated (which I enjoy) nothing much really happens. I wish I knew what happened to the parents afterward or what happens at the trial and what sentence she got (or if she even woke up) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Blood, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion

thetainaship's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Racism

naoewald's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Minor: Xenophobia and Pregnancy

the_literarylinguist's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Cancer and Eating disorder