Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Cantoras by Caro De Robertis

8 reviews

kateyhb's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

This book took me a few weeks to finish, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I wanted to savor every page. This book touched me deeply with its authentic portrayal of sapphic love when life and death depended on its secrecy. This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, moving. I don’t know if a non-queer person would truly appreciate it, but I think it’s a mandatory read for all sapphics out there. 

Heads up, read the trigger warnings for this one. Definitely some heavy topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Homophobia, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Torture

Moderate: Mental illness, Infertility, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

dreareads_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

"A Cantora is a woman who sings"

"Its [cantora] connotations were beautiful, but also obscene, depending on how you approached it"

This, this is one of the most beautiful sapphic stories I have read. It is the story of 5 queer women finding each other and learning to survive under the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970's.

It is a story of survival, friendship, love, betrayal, and political action. It is a beautiful story that takes you through the history of Uruguays & Latin Americas slow movement towards democracy and queer rights.

The relationships between the five women were heart warming. They were each strong women, who found a space where they could be happy, vulnerable, and themselves. Through the story we see these women break the barriers that have been imposed on them by society, fighting to be their true selves and for their own country.

This story made me realize how little I know about lgbt movement in LatAm. How so many fought for democracy, equality, and love. In This book I found my love for my mother tongue, Spanish, again. A language that throughout the book is often used to emphasize the beauty that exists around the world.

During this book I laughed, I cried, and celebrated the wonderment that is being a sapphic woman. A must read for everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, and Suicide

editorbrenna's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicide and Alcoholism

jessicaelisa's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Homophobia, Abandonment, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Police brutality, Alcohol, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Lesbophobia, and Medical trauma

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Torture, Miscarriage, and Alcoholism

lexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Genocide

There are a lot of potentially triggering topics in this book, but it never felt like "torture porn" to me. It wasn't there to shock, it was there because these are real experiences people have.

tatianaisreading's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Gaslighting

cassidy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, and Forced institutionalization

megplant's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Torture

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Biphobia

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