Reviews with content warning for Miscarriage - Again, Rachel

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rubbagubba's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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kb245's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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mrsfrozzie's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

3.75

Trigger warnings: pregnancy loss and addiction.
This was my first book by Marian Keyes and it took me a while to get into it but I quite enjoyed it in the end.
Rachel is an addiction counsellor, working in a rehab centre. She is herself an addict who has been in recovery for 20 years. As her path crosses that of her ex-husband after 7 years, her life is turned upside down.

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katiehalford's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.5

This is my second Marian Keyes book and to my surprise she is becoming a fast favourite of mine!!

This book was simply a delight to read, it genuinely made me laugh out loud and I felt like Rachel was a friend from page 1. I loved every character in the book and all of their quirks.

Rachel’s story was so heartbreaking but somehow told in such a feel-good way. I love a long book and loved spending so much time with the characters. Exploring Rachel’s life (past and present) as she unpacks it kept me engaged throughout and I am so glad that there is a second book!!

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vivmorris's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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anekk78's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved this book. Not super fan of the first Rachel book, but this is great. Such a bittersweet story, when it started to get going I couldn’t put it down. Not a five ⭐️ because I found the bits from the work a bit boring, too many characters that I wasn’t invested in. It is enough characters with the Walsh clan!

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snapshotsofabookishlass's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful slow-paced

Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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confessions_of_a_bookaholic's review against another edition

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5.0

Rachel Walsh knows all about rehab and recovery. Having been through the process herself in her twenties, she is now the head counseller at the very same facility that helped her. With life on track Rachel finally feels like things are coming together, but when her ex husband suddenly re-appears in Ireland old feelings and memories get stirred up. Is Rachel strong enough to stick to her recovery?

Marian Keyes definitely knows how to write a family drama, so I went in to this pretty confident that I was going to enjoy it, and I wasn't wrong. It was the perfect book to be reading whilst off work sick for a few days, like a warm comfy blanket and cup of tea.

It's a few years since I first read about Rachel and her struggles, so not all of the details were fresh in my mind. This book gives you enough of a back story that it refreshes your memory, but doesn't spend too long going over old ground. I think you'd be fine diving in without having read any of the previous Walsh family books if you wanted to, but they do add extra depth to the family and characters.

I was fascinated by this book. When we join Rachel at the start she seems so steady, with her life really going well. When Luke reappears it's obvious that it will have an impact, but I was on tenterhooks trying to figure out just how much or how badly it was going to affect her (and hoping against hope that she wasn't going to blow up her life!) You don't know until the very end of the book how things are going to work out, and honestly I was fully invested the whole way through, even when I didn't like the way events were turning.

There are some very sensitive topics broached over the course of this book, so I strongly suggest looking at trigger warnings before reading if there are things that you find difficult to read about. As is usually the case with Keyes, these topics were handled with care. I thought she did a fantastic job of helping to show the trauma and long lasting effects that some of these tragedies can have on people.

I loved this, and certainly won't be waiting so long to read the next installment of the Walsh family.

Trigger Warnings: Miscarriage, death of a child, addiction, alcoholism, drug abuse

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