Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Black Iris by Elliot Wake

6 reviews

lowercaselettersandnumbers's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

giuliaprim's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

kept me glued from the start till the fucking end and the plot twists!
Laney is basically Mia Corvere if she was in a contemporary novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Alcohol, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Body shaming and Addiction

mllesophie's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is better to start whithout knowing to much. I knew there was a sapphic romance, but I would not consider this book a romance. I knew it was weird. I pick this up for a beach read and i wasn't the right vibe but I couldn't stop reading it. This is a dark and twisted story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Bullying

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Addiction, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

rsk1315's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

s3lin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism and Gaslighting

karoureads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

“Two girls, cherry-mouthed, glitter-lashed, our skin luminous with moonlight and sweat, making out beneath pennants that still shivered with the afternoon’s boy bravado.”

This book blowed my mind every five minutes. Just when you think you know whats happening, everything changes and you find out about more stuff. I loved every single thing about this book: the no-redemption arc, the way it treats mental illnes, drugs, lgbt, the romantic and sexual relationships, the blurred lines between friendship and romantic love and how dark and twisted everything was. This books is dark and painful and is pure revenge. Laney is an anti-hero and I loved reading every thing she did and felt and think.

“Change isn’t peaceful. Change is violent, savage, cruel”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship