Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Girl in Pieces, by Kathleen Glasgow

83 reviews

haithisil's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Blood, Self harm, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape and Fire/Fire injury

what_jenn_reads's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Addiction, Car accident, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death of parent, Mental illness, Blood, Drug use, Child abuse, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Rape, and Self harm

finiscelinis's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.0

For people who have someone close to them who is in a dark place. It’s for them to read and get to understand more about mental illness. 
I do not recommend this to mentally ill people. Too brutal and triggering.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual content, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, Injury/injury detail, Rape, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Abandonment, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cursing, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Car accident, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Vomit

Brutal

reemamsh's review

dark informative slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Trafficking, and Abandonment

meeklovestoread's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.0

I really wished I love this book as much as everyone else does, but honestly I found it a little hard to connect with the story due to how inconsistent the timelines felt. I understand how some people felt when they said it felt like reading two different stories.

I felt like the story could've been more impactful if we got Charlie's story before she went into the psych ward. I have an idea of what happened to her before she was committed, but the fact that we only got fragments throughout the book made her story quite unclear to the reader.

Also there were an overwhelming amount of characters that were introduced from her past and present that it was hard to keep up with. Especially from her past. I'm still unclear as to what happened. Like who is DannyBoy? And I'm still unclear as to what Evan's role was in her life. And what about Fucking Frank? Also I'm still unsure about Ellis's story? Is she in a vegetated state or something? 

I'm not sure if it's because this genre is YA and the author felt like they had to censor alot of things. But for a book that dealt with alot of serious topics it felt pretty surface level to me. And a few of the relationships Charlie made in this book felt inconclusive.

Also I wish we could've gotten more of Lousia's letters. She seemed pretty broken and her story just felt undone to me.

Although despite these criticisms, I do feel like the message of this book still resonated. And her feelings, her detachment, her attachment, the cycle of wanting to get better vs. actually having the strength to get better were very well depicted. Also I admired the contrast between Blue, Louisa, Riley, and Charlie as morally grey characters. It really demonstrated how one can end up if their problems become too much for them to bare.

I wanted to note that I found Charlie and Riley "relationship" pretty frustrating yet relatable. Charlie's attachment towards Riley even though she knows he's bad for her is typical behavior of fearful-avoidants. People that feel like they don't deserve better than their current circumstances. She was attached to Riley because she believed a bum like him was the only person that could love her. I just really wished she was not keep in contact with him.

Although frustrating, I feel like alot of people could relate to Charlie, her actions, her feelings, and her story. Overall it was a decent story with a good message.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Addiction, Grief, and Self harm

Moderate: Alcohol and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident and Child abuse

nikkibisbee's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Violence, Abandonment, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

texas_reznikoff's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Alcohol, and Blood

prachidayal's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-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

2.5

• Long read (10 hours)
• Factually inaccurate about hospitals, has terrible and unrealistic dialogue, and too much italicization (I just don't like her writing style.) The book got really boring after Blue returned. The trauma wore the character due to poor character development.
• I liked the writing from Louisa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Injury/injury detail, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment

hayley07's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

ameliafarrands's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Mental illness