Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

19 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Hate crime, Blood, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Infertility, Vomit, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

krystlethegreat's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Gore

jenn_reads's review against another edition

dark hopeful fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I thought this was going to lean more on the funny end of things like Dial A for Aunties or Finlay Donovan is Killing It. It was much more serious, although still a good read. 

I'm still not totally sure why the women had to actually go in the cave in such dangerous circumstances? They left the car and phones at the beach, they had a witness spot them dressed as their husbands from afar, and they had another car nearby to take them home. Why couldn't they have dumped some jackets and left without going through the tunnel at such a dangerous time? It really lost me there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Minor: Dementia

Manslaughter, killing in self-defense, disposing of dead bodies, COVID lockdown, forced arranged marriage

goodcoffeeandbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

supermormongirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

ebethreyes's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

(TW: Domestic Violence )

“I don’t want to go to prison now I’m finally free.” 

👆🏽That’s basically the quote that sums up the whole book to be honest. I had overwhelming anxiety from the very first chapter because you know from the jump that Sally killed her husband and you don’t know what’s gonna happen after that. Did he deserve it? Absolutely TF yes. Does she deserve to go to prison? Absolutely TF not. But, that’s not always how things work so ya gotta let it play out. 

I absolutely loved the themes of sisterhood, courage and empowerment in this book. 

The only thing that I wish is that it would’ve came out  DURING the pandemic. I only say that because I feel like I would’ve been more immersed in the story if I could’ve felt the same sense of confinement as them. I definitely remember the feeling, but it’s different now and fleeting so if I had read it then it definitely would’ve had a deeper impact.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

mandareads222's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Outing

Minor: Child abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

snarkycrafter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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

This book is so multidimensional. There’s generational trauma, domestic violence, covid lockdown, friendship, courage, sisterhood, and so much love. 

It managed to be both a dark comedy and a harrowing story of domestic violence during lockdown and what survivors go through. 

The characters are well developed and multifaceted, and so, so strong! The strength, love, and friendship these women give each other feels so genuine and heart warming. 

The writing is absolutely beautiful, both hilarious, gut wrenching, tense and thrilling when it needed to be. The author remained sensitive to the various cultures she portrayed outside her own lived experience and sensitive to the topic of DV. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Dementia and Religious bigotry

charadelle's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted 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? No

3.5

Listened to the audiobook for book club. It was decently funny and lighthearted while tackling a dark topic. While I understand why the author set this book during the COVID lockdown, it was one of the parts of the book that I disliked most.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Death of parent

susanm_82's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic