Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

49 reviews

erinb1414's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

isabelmargetts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Dementia, and Death of parent

jevette15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Pedophilia

sjanke2's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

abbyynormal's review against another edition

I am not emotionally prepared to finish this book, but I will be some day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Infertility, Miscarriage, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

vulco1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was great.  But a ton of trigger warnings... I was being punched in the heart by all sides, lol.  Super touching, the main characters had different stories and writing styles and were written differently.  A+ work.  Loved it but will not read again, lol.

The mystery was so/so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Abandonment

haleyschmitz's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

Really did not enjoy the writing, subplots, or main character Avery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

phoenix115's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

Minor: Infertility

kitten_nuisance's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.5

I was primarily interested in the historical timeline of this book, so I guess I should have read something nonfiction on the subject instead. I did enjoy parts of this, but it was also a bit circuitous in ways? 

The modern timeline was not enjoyable, like a Southern version of a Debbie Macomber book. It’s a feat to bore me with a plot about someone trying to find out secrets that I’m already invested in!

I have to sadly say that both of these were drowned out to me by a chorus of conservative, even racist, dogwhistles. Everything an author includes in a book is a choice. Confederate roses are a choice. A character in modern day using an old, *moved* slave cabin as a workshop is a choice. Saying that your sister is glaring at you and looks like a Chinaman doing laundry is a choice. It appears that a lot of readers are fine with these choices. I will be choosing to be more cautious with my White Woman Fiction reading selections in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Dementia, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Infertility

Adoption/adoption coercion

ladyaligator's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Infertility and Dementia

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, and Alcohol