Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Book of Night by Holly Black

58 reviews

bethr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

raedynfae's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction

lri_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Would’ve like it more if it had the happy ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Death of parent, and Alcohol

sweetteaandfiction's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Listen, it is no secret to the people that know my love of reading that I am hoe for @blackholly . I would read the woman’s grocery list. Happily. 

Book of Night wasn’t my favorite book she has ever written (nothing has topped Tithe in over 20 years for me), but it still left me eager to dive deeper into this world and get to know these characters. 

PROS: 
🖤It is Holly FREAKING Black 
📓The fact Shadow Magic has been around forever, but it seems like it was a secret underground thing until the last few decades was super neat. 
🖤The reveal about Shadow Daddy had me screaming. 
📓The world building was top notch, as per usual. 

CONS: 
🖤I still felt like I was left with more questions than answers in the end. 
📓I have to wait for the answers. 
🖤I have a hit list of characters that could catch these hands for free because they are the worst kind of people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

chase0w0's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

dreadspawn's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Incest and Sexual content

multiplyoctopi's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

jennn_3's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Incest

cosypuck's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Cool concept for the magic system/lore, but the plot was really confusing with too many characters, I don't love a dual timeline, and I didn't like the ending. The author told us the same obvious things loads of times but didn't explain a lot of the connections between characters and events enough for me to feel satisfied when the plot concluded because I didn't really know what I was meant to be waiting for. As other people have said, the main character is meant to be 28 but reads like an 18 year old.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

bcope84's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism