Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

33 reviews

paperknotbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

To be rated after BookTube Prize.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Racism, Medical trauma, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse and Abortion

Eugenics

dreamycactus's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse and Racism

Minor: Abortion

theabee's review against another edition

challenging informative sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion

ruffian23's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

kateyhb's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

I loved this book. As a nurse, I found it extremely poignant because we have have a responsibility to reckon with the dark history of reproductive injustice and medical experimentation on BIPOC folks in the not so distance past and present. 

I loved the characters, the plot, and I will be thinking about this book for a long time to come. The only thing I didn’t love was how at times it felt a little bit “rich savior” tropey. However, I think that was part of the point-folks with privilege don’t face many of the same injustices as those in deep poverty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent

passionatereader78's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Medical trauma

Moderate: Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Abortion, and Classism

emardesen's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Racism, and Abortion

Minor: Mental illness

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

this broke my heart but the story also made me feel so much love for the characters. the history behind the book will leave you speechless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

pellepanda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Infertility, Racism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Child abuse, and Car accident

thrillofthepage's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer and Abortion

Minor: Genocide, Mental illness, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy