Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

5 reviews

arcookson's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Rape

latisha's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Suicide

lampbee's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.5

Love the way she writes mysteries maybe it makes me sound stupid but i love when things wrap up in a way you’d never guess , not every loose end is tied but the ones that are you’d never expect :) Very fun book and made me think too much about the passage of time so I’m sad now :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, and War

In Part III there’s a

detailed description of the artist colony performing a protest/demonstration wherein they use Native American stereotypes (wearing headdresses , painting their faces etc) It’s brief and thus bit is set in the mid 1920s.

jitterbugsnap's review

medium-paced

5.0

"Count it as the universe's cruelest irony that the ghosts, who alone could piece a whole story together, are uniquely unable to tell it."

I loved this book from the beginning -- I'm enamored with Makkai's style, and the structure was well chosen and well implemented. This will leave me lingering on impermanence and lost contexts for a while to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Racism

mateoj's review

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

I'm mad because I absolutely adored The Borrower and therefore had really high hopes for this book, but it's just so slow and unsatisfying. I couldn't really get behind any of the characters, which is fine (no one said a protagonist has to be a good person), but none of them managed to be bad people in a way that made me want to read about them or care what happened to them despite it. The superatural element was the only truly interesting thing about this book and it was essentially nonexistent, just a topic of conversation to give the characters a connnection. lots of egregious racism that seemed to seve no purpose whatsoever. I have no idea how i was meant to be feeling at the end of the book or what exactly it was trying to tell me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcohol