Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah

14 reviews

ruthdaniell's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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, Rape, Domestic abuse, and Child death

killmoore_'s review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Repetitive. My lort, so repetitive. 

This could have been so much better. All of the building blocks were there to make this a phenomenal thriller - instead, it was 200 pages of useless dribble leading up to a less than climactic twist and a sub par ending. 

Zannah is a champ. We love Zannah. 
And Tilly. 

Spoiler

I went into this really hoping for some weird, Sci-fi esque story about clones and ended up with a pretty upsetting (and not in a good way) domestic abuse story. Ugh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Grief, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Rape, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

spenny21's review against another edition

dark sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

 This was fucking weird. It was a fine book. The beginning was a bit repetitive, the middle totally grabbed me and I was excited to read it, and then for me the end flopped. (Physical) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Rape, and Domestic abuse

whitap's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child death, and Child abuse

syddug's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

nisquah's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Murder, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Misogyny, Racism, and Miscarriage

michaelion's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

Bored white soccer mom being a little too nosy. If you like constant repetition, mediocre writing, and a very slow almost glacial pace for 85% of the book and then the speed of a rocket launch at the end, you might like this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Stalking

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Child death, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape, Miscarriage, Grief, Mental illness, and Murder

galexy_brain's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Characters were dull. Not the author's fault, but I found the main character's "I don't get what's happening with the youth these days" attitude to be annoying to read about. The mystery was drip-fed and then answered all at once. I didn't find any of it unexpected and found the twists to be more like roadblocks delaying me from getting to the end of the story.

Spoiler

Lewis was so unbearable from the beginning that I couldn't understand why anyone ever thought he was good?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Rape, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Ableism, Miscarriage, Grief, Islamophobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Stalking

liferhi_inspired's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.5

I was really excited to read this one, the synopsis just sounded so intriguing. Unfortunately I ended up finding this story to be too slow and a bit boring. I almost DNFd this multiple times and only pushed through hoping that the big reveal would pay off.

I found that the protagonists crossed a lot of boundaries and was oddly obsessive. There were also whole storylines (and even an entire chapter) that went no where and had no use to the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse

autiedragon's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide