Reviews tagging Physical abuse

Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng

4 reviews

courtneys317's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Physical abuse, and Violence

whatwentsent's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Gore, Death of parent, Police brutality, Racism, Xenophobia, Deportation, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Injury/injury detail, Child abuse, Classism, Violence, Death, Rape, and Forced institutionalization

internationalreads's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, War, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Classism, Death of parent, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Trafficking

thebookenddiner's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Our Missing Hearts 🤍

Genre: Science Fiction
Trope: Dystopian
Format: 📖🎧
Pub Date: 10.4.2022
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

"She returns in sudden flashes. Like scraps of half-remembered dreams."

I'm not going to lie; I was thrown off for the first few pages because I went into this book without reading the summary. I didn't want preconceived ideas, so I started reading and discovered that 1. There are no quotation marks, and 2. It's a dystopian novel. I switched to listening to the book through Libro.FM (because I can't handle no quotation marks) and then adapted my brain to take in a science fiction story.

Our Missing Hearts is a novel that will stay with me because it felt almost unsettling accurate, and prophetic. The whole book circles around love, friendship, and sacrifice and just how far some would go for strangers. The ambiguous ending left me feeling both gutted and hopeful.

📖 Perfect book club pick
🫠 No quotation marks!
❗️ Authors note is a must read
💯 Audiobook
🫶🏼 Themes of love, friendship & sacrifice
🥺 Felt unnervingly true & prophetic

❌ Graphic assault of a woman and her dog.

I recommend reading Our Missing Hearts if you enjoyed the poetic writing style of The Goldfinch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Physical abuse