Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The One by John Marrs

63 reviews

monique1316's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

chicitytyty's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved this book and it’s slow descent into seemingly madness. 

What starts as stories of biologically destined loves begins to turn into some more thought provoking. Something darker. 

And it gets darker still. 

John Marrs’ reads like an episode of Black Mirror and with that comes both the hope and the destruction that new technology can have on a society. I finished the book not knowing if I wanted DNA Matches to be real or if the scenarios presented were enough of a deterrent.  I’ll be thinking of this book and it’s message for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Infertility, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer

librarianjennifer's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

reesespuff6's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

readsbymoonlight's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

This book was crazy banana pants but I ate it up! Never read a book before in which every chapter ended in a cliffhanger and had my jaw dropping as all this messy drama unfolded. Hopefully, the Netflix show improves on a few of the storylines and it will be entertaining as heck. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

chrisdennismyers's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

I don't love John Marrs, it's a little "men writing women" but the concept is SO good and the plot is excellent. Just the female characters have some cringey moments/thoughts that I wish had been excluded.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pregnancy

leebeeloves's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

ameliez's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Infidelity and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death and Infertility

dazzle_spider_reader_1212's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Murder

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

What a spectacular, brilliantly creative piece of writing. I couldn’t put it down and fell asleep reading it after keeping myself up way too late on a work night, that good. There are a multitude of storylines for varying characters and relationships, all centering around the universal “truth” that, in this world, there is one perfect match for everyone on earth and it’s genetically determined. Just send in a DNA sample and await your results. Simple, right? Far, far from it. Absolutely riveting, I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

Edited to add: this is sci-fi, and the science written here is obviously not sound. If you’ll be bothered by the scientific inaccuracies of the central element here then skip this, otherwise have fun pretending it’s real :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol