Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

17 reviews

harrownova's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful slow-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and Blood

bookishdi's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

montereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Physical abuse and Suicidal thoughts

karingforbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

KC does abusive relationships (mostly parent child) brilliantly, especially the aftermath. It’s brutal but it adds a whole other layer. Love Bitterblue and seeing her childhood come to the fore in her strength. Love Lovisa and definitely the sea creature. And Adventure!! The animals in this were beautiful. This world is so comfortable, even ten years later and I loved learning about the expansion of it. Excellent sequel 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Murder

ajparmentier's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book so much! I read it all in one go. Cashore has done it again. The beginning like 30 pages or so were a little more inelegantly a worldbuilding dump than usual, but afterwards the worldbuilding was a lot more organic as Cashore built up this whole new world. All of the POV characters were so interesting and dynamic. Cashore further explores themes of power, love, sex, abuse, and recovery. It's such a pleasure to see these themes deepened and different aspects of them examined in each of the books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Sexual assault:

Very scene where a boy threatens to have sex with a girl against her will. She just doesn't want to have sex in that location and basically argues with the boy and the move locations. The boy doesn't appear much later in the story.

Suicide:

Mentions of suicide and allusions to a character considering suicide and not caring about their life are made. No suicides occur.

Abuse via starvation and neglect. Animal cruelty:

None of the named/significant animals die or intentionally cruelly injured. It's "faceless" ocean animals. One of the main animal characters gets injured and another is in a (mostly emotionally) abusive situation. But doesn't get, like, hit or anything.

mxrumphius's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content