Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

De geniale vriendin by Elena Ferrante

99 reviews

kaiulanilee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Classism

sydney_abigail25's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-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

5.0

I LOVED IT SO MUCH. THE ENDING WAS CRAZY. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN BEING WOMEN AND HAVING FEMALE FRIENDS AND LIVING THEIR LIVES. SO. GOOD.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

eazurch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

I really liked this book, stayed up multiple evenings to finish it even. I like following Lila and Elena’s friendship over so many years and reading about all the interpersonal dynamics (while having the character list to refer back to).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

rainbowrachel's review against another edition

sad medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

lenaricharz's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

abrownb15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-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

3.75

Female friendship at it’s strongest. Elena and Lila are so wonderful and well-written. Their lives change and they grow but their loyalty and friendship is strong. The other town characters  become confusing and irritating as the chapters go on but a great narrative and brilliant author. Got me out of a reading slump! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

bookymartha's review against another edition

4.0

She captures close female friendship throughout childhood and adolescence in such a perfect way, I was completely absorbed by this book! Deducted a star because of the ending, which I absolutely could not believe. Read this in 3 days as it was borrowed, but I think I would have read it this fast even without the time pressure!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Sexual assault

jeslis's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Notes:
- I feel like this one lacked a larger array of in-depth characters and was a bit slow for me to personally be overly invested.
- However, really raw writing style which was so amazing to read — created vivid imagery and really served to match its themes of violence, emotional violence/intensity and how these tied into the main female friendship.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Child abuse

selenatothemax's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, and Toxic friendship

lucymh's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

Really interesting and you can’t stop reading it once you get into it, that being said it did take me about 100 pages to get into. There’s a ton of characters, which is confusing at first but by the end you are interested in all of them and their relationships with one another. Ended at a suspenseful point that really left me wanting more, so now I can’t wait to get the next book which I hope expands on the sort of romantic aspect of their relationship (unless I’m reading that dead wrong.) At certain points I wished the narrator was more self assured, but when she was more confident during the summer chapters I felt really happy for her. I think it is a really excellent portrayal of a super complicated friendship between two women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic relationship