Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

14 reviews

daniellekat's review against another edition

I'm bored. I looked up a summary to see if I should stick with it, and was immediately sure I should dnf. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol

mynameisrebecca's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Great story that took too long to get started.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Vomit

mariesbooks's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Homophobia, Self harm, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

purstiltski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Stalking

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, and Sexual content

hannaheinhorn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I listened to this on Audible and really disliked the male narrator’s speaking style. This book reads a bit YA. I had seen this book talked about as “literary horror” and truthfully, I wouldn’t consider it “literary” in the sense that it wasn’t very sophisticated, which in this case, was something I was hoping for. I didn’t hate it, but the ending did cheapen it for me. I wanted much more story on the dagger man and cared so much less about the kids who were investigating the story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

horrorandscience's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Suicide

keen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad

• 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Torture, Abortion, and Pregnancy

perkyanda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Really interesting way of playing with format and structure, interesting characters and take on writing and authors. At times the

repetition/recursion

gets tedious and teasing out

the actual narrative gets meh

but overall it’s an enjoyable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

"Being old kind of takes the magic out of things....it's sad. But also a relief."

This is about trying to write your way out of tremendous grief and it is beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Bullying and Pregnancy