Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

9 reviews

evpie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Confinement, Cannibalism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, and Death

jvantland's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

A slow start and my outrage about the concept of the school/sacrificing of these kids nearly had me giving up, but I couldn’t put it down. More of the circumstances of the school’s existence are revealed throughout the book that help give context, but it still leaves you with the unsettling sort of “is this the hunger games and where are the adults and why the hell aren’t they helping” feeling. It took me a while to realize it’s offering a critique of the classist, capitalistic culture, largely because it’s just so hopeless until the final few chapters. Still, I’m curious to see where this series goes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Child abuse

breosaighead's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Death

taelights's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

Honestly, I didn't like this book and didn't hate this book either. I just felt so indifferent to the story itself and the characters. It was boring at times and the main character was very annoying (even more so with the woman's voice who narrated the audiobook) and she had literally no chemistry with her boring love interest. I was really looking forward to reading this series but book one has me very disappointed and not wanting to read book two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Torture, and Violence

eve_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ The main character is 90% a Katniss Everdeen “angry girl” trope and 10% a soft cinnamon roll who is anxious about having friends. I love her a lot.

⁕  There is LOTS of info dumping, and it slows the story down at points.

⁕ The monsters and magic in this novel are ridiculous, bordering absurd at some points. Maybe it’s just me, but I had a hard time envisioning some of the things depicted.

⁕ I probably will read the next book in this series (duology?) just because the cliffhanger at the end was so shocking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

dana_kuku's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

sarah_d's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, and Violence

chaosjade's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I've never read a book where the primary characteristic of the protagonist is angry. El is constantly furious and for good reason with the school itself trying to kill her. Yet despite always telling herself to only look out for herself...she still does the right thing when push comes to shove. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Child abuse

izzywoo's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, and Death