Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

33 reviews

rinku's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, and Pregnancy

mirthesportel's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Self harm, Sexual violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

ghosttpants's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

i HATED this book, and I genuinely believe it's really really bad, not just that it wasn't for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Police brutality and Death of parent

mrobin14's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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? No

2.0

The writing at times is very immature. Often thoughts would be scattered paragraphs away from where it started, or events would become repetitively told to the reader within the same chapters. Some events that transpired don’t make sense to have been included, it feels like they were cheap shots at making a “diverse” and “deep” cast. Pages were clearly taken from Lemony Snicketts writing in silly chapter set ups, but it just makes it feel like a poorly written YA novel. Feel as though the story idea is good, but needed a more stern publisher to steer it in the right direction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and War

gcjay1994's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This one snuck up on me - in the end I realized what a good time I had. A lot darker than anticipated in some spots. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

alielaine's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Torture, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Murder

mmari's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Cliffhanger un po' prevedibile e world building semplice, adatto a lettori fantasy neofiti. Molto carina la storia e ben scritto

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Physical abuse, Torture, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

christina_chen's review against another edition

challenging dark sad

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, and Kidnapping

book_dragon_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

helliepad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

There was a point in the middle of this that I just wanted to put the book down bc it started getting miserable and I totally forgot this had magic halfway through. I love the story and even though I suspected that Kiva was

from the Corentine line

from the start, the emotional impact of

her mother the Rebel Queen DYING under her care

was insane to me and it still hit. Two more books is too long for me though idk if I'll finish the series. Though the story is really good and I love

secret identity

stories so that was nice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury