Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

8 reviews

xvicesx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

A weird little piece, but somehow oddly compelling. Very nicely written and easy to keep up with, especially as an audio book, with short insights into each girl's life like a moving camera for each chapter. 

It's mostly slice of life, which is an acquired taste for the western palate, but the lives of the women featured are interesting and challenging in ways that you do not really expect. Each of them carries scars, some showing more than others, but it ultimately makes their stories very immersive. 

I don't know if I'd say I recommend it or not, since I'm unsure how I feel about it, but I'd say it's a good fit for people who enjoyed Convenience Store Woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Miscarriage

kaybee23's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Infertility, and Miscarriage

doodeedoda's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Abortion

eilatan6991's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Miscarriage, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

katievh's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexism, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Suicide, and Abandonment

sunny_not's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative 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? Yes

3.5

I really enjoyed it, it depicts the issues that women and especially Korean women face quite well. It highlights their different experiences and different hopes which was quite interesting. However I didn't give this a higher rating since I'm not a huge fan of open endings and there were many questions left unanswered which is also not my cup of tea. Overall I would recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, and Alcohol

sseoryn's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

i would have given it 4 stars if it weren't for the pace, the ending is somewhat satisfying, but in a way that's good bcs it gives the reader a chance to decipher their own versions of endings for each character. i would've liked to see more culture in it though, if it weren't for the characters names, occasional korean slangs i would have thought im just reading any ordinary contemporary english novel. i think it would have been a tad bit more interesting if they included ruby's pov, and maybe nami and hanbin yk? it would be really thought provoking and give a bit more insight to readers to know what goes on in a suicidal person's mind, a loving boyfriend who cheated, and a young girl who gave in early to *that* industry, personally i feel like frances wasted a lot of page count, especially on sujin? im not even sure if i got her name right, that's how much lack of background story frances gave on sujin, i couldn't get to know her as well as i knew other characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

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danajoy's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Medical content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship