Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Dagarna med dig by Rosie Walsh, Ann Björkhem

14 reviews

vivisms_82's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious sad
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Boy (Eddie) meets girl (Sarah). They fall in love after a week then part ways with the promise to see each other again. Girl doesn't hear from boy again. She is baffled why and despite her friends' insistence she move on, she can't let it go. I think it should be noted that although this book does feature romance, it is more a book about grief and how we as humans are complex in how we cope or don't cope with it.

This book was not what I expected. I thought it would be more of a darker, more intriguing mystery than what the truth end up being. The book was fine; I thought most of it plausible and sincere to human behaviour.
The dialogue and angst between Sarah and her friends when Sarah finds herself accidentally pregnant when her best friend just had her last hope of becoming a mother taken away, was so well written.
However I struggled to empathise with parts of it due to it being (in my opinion) an overreaction that
Sarah's sister Hannah, wouldn't speak to her for 20 years for VERY ACCIDENTALLY AND UNINTENTIONALLY killing her best friend in an automobile accident (when she was 16/17). What makes it harder to swallow, is Hannah's harsh stance when the accident was her fault in the first place! She put Sarah in that awful position because Sarah wanted to save her from harm after she recklessly got in the car with a teenage buffoon! The townsfolk shunning Sarah seemed also over the top. Oh and don't get me started on the cold hard b**ch that is Eddie's mother. It is one thing to grieve, be angry and seek blame for your misery, HOWEVER Sarah is treated like she killed Eddie's sister maliciously in cold blood. I get the mix of feelings and unease but the terrible treatment of Sarah does not equate to the reality of what happened. I thought the burden of responsibility on Eddie to care and support his mother 24/7 was totally believable and I appreciated the accuracy of the relationship between adult children and unwell parents.
 

All in all not a terrible book but not a must-read either.
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guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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livpaige93's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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kalynallis's review against another edition

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

2.5

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grucabooks's review against another edition

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

1.0

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asourceoffiction's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted 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

3.5

A clever twist on the idea of being ghosted and the possible reasons for it. But despite the heavy emotional side to this story, I didn't feel particularly emotionally invested. I enjoyed it, but for some reason it just didn't hit me in the feels.

I did like the way it subverted my expectations, exactly when I thought I had the plot all laid out. And I'm glad it did, because it would have been incredibly predictable otherwise, and the twist gave the whole book much more depth and interest.

For a story with so much sadness surrounding it, I found it oddly fluffy. I enjoyed it but it's not the most memorable remance I've read.
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astoriareader's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

SYNOPSIS:
  • Sarah meets Eddie. They spend a week together. Eddie leaves for a vacation, and he promises to call. He doesn’t call.
  • Sarah cannot wrap her head around fact that Eddie has vanished. Where did he go? Why didn’t he call? What gives?

MY THOUGHTS
  • Super underwhelmed. 
  • Title & synopsis are pretty misleading. I thought this book would be similar to Adelaide, but only the first third are really about the concept of ghosting. The author tries to throw in some twists & switch directions, but it didn’t work for me.
  • Walsh IS a talented writer, and I do enjoy reading her writing. This story, however, didn’t cut it for me.
  • I found their “relationship” to be really cringey. The characters are also insufferable. It didn’t feel realistic to me that Sarah would be so obsessed with someone she knew for 7 days. Also, these characters are older, and they aren’t young & dumb. It didn’t seem believable to me that they would genuinely think the other was the love of their lives in 7 days.
  • This book doesn’t have a satisfying ending, and it REALLY drags. I wasn’t a fan of the pacing

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️Underwhelming. Not satisfying ending. Misleading title & synopsis.
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surrrrrrrmmmmmma's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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jlautry's review against another edition

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

3.0

A love story with mystery and a twist. I really enjoyed this book. It was short and kept my attention. Towards the end, I didn’t want to put it down! This is a great summer read and a great palette cleanser. I got this book from Marion & Ed Hughes Public Library (Nederland, TX) on an interlibrary loan through Denton Public Library.  
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harperhoney's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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