Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

11 reviews

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

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

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

emilyyjjean's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

First off, please pay attention to content warnings. This book could potentially be triggering to some people. 

This was such an emotional but also funny book. I really like how the author weaved in dark humor with the heavy plot topic. I loved all the characters and I felt so stressed for them while they were trying to sort everything out. There were many ups and downs in this book, but it all kept me reading; I couldn’t put it down! 

I’m glad these women were able to escape their husbands. I know the situation in which they’ve escaped is pretty iffy, since they did sort of murder them. But most people aren’t  actually able to escape, and I’m sure that Lockdown made some situations even worse. This book really made me reflect on domestic violence, and I’m definitely going to look into seeing how I can help in my community.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia

loverly7's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Physical abuse

stitchbooks22's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

I really enjoyed this and raced through it. It focuses on an important topic (domestic violence) and is set in the Covid lockdown. I think it worked really well and was very funny, despite the seriousness of the topic. The friendship that formed between the women was also wonderful to see come to life throughout the story. I’d really recommend this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Infertility

lorrared's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

“Sally.  Ruth.  Samira.  Janey.

They all have a story.  They all have a breaking point.  And they all have a husband to dispose of.”

Both heartbreaking and hilarious.

Each woman is in a unique situation of long term abuse and then on top of that COVID lockdowns exacerbates the issues.

Each of their stories were heartbreakingly sad and it perfectly shows why it isn’t so easy to find a way out of abusive relationships.

Although a very dark and tough subject, Alexia managed to make me laugh a lot and enjoy the touching moments of their healing, their friendships and their support for each other.  They are all likeable characters and I was rooting for them all.

The Authors Note made the subject come to life and will stay with me.  This book definitely did its job, it made me laugh, but also made me think.  Thank you @alexia.casale

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

broncoannee's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

tmleblanc's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

I loved this book from page one. Casale did a marvelous job of capturing the isolation of the pandemic and the joy we all found when we discovered a little happiness where we could.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Dementia

readsbyhope's review

This was too content heavy on a topic that I couldn't read and it was incredibly slow paced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic