Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Verbeeld Me by Tahereh Mafi

19 reviews

spatterson7's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

isiliest's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Torture

milzy_23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

rokinjaguar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Certainly was a book. Listen, I could see what the author was trying to do but this was just ridiculous. Not actively bad but not good at all. The most engaging part was me genuinely scared for my life that

Juliette and the old man were going to kiss

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

overduck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense

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

4.0

It felt a little lazy/haphazard to immediately throw the characters directly back into the situation they quite literally just escaped. I also felt the resolution could have resulted in a lot more answered questions. Still, Warner was iconic in this book, and I will shamelessly admit I read it obsessively.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Body horror, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and War

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

If you asked me if I liked this book 300 pages in I would have said no. Honestly this book sucked. Boring and gross and depressing. But Mafi manages to once again make a full recovery in the end. I even cried. I hate to say it but the end was so sweet the whole gross Anderson thing seems less offensive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Juliette Ferrars or Ella Sommers - who is she, really? She was born as Ella, but transformed to Juliette, a soldier who obeys order. When the final battle approaches she may not even get to choose which side she wants to fight for. 

I think I agree with those who believe this should have stayed a trilogy. I do enjoy hanging with the characters, and since I had long gaps between books 3 and 4, as well as between books 4 and 5, I didn't mind the continuation. But now it wasn't that long ago since I read the fifth book, and I feel like there's quite a lot of repetitions. They win a fight, lose the next, win again... and so on. Not much variation and this book doesn't come with any real surprises either. 

I've borrowed the whole series from the library, but I didn't have time to read Imagine Me before I had to bring it back. Instead of waiting until it was available again I decided to listen to it. It wasn't a good choice. We get Juliette's/Ella's, Kenji's and, at the end, Warner's/Aaron's POV's, and the narrator that reads Kenji's chapters has a tendency to be overdramatic. Another thing is that my experience of the language gets different when I listen. Mafi's got a special way with words (at least in this series), and what gets striking in text can get tiresome when hearing it. Imagine the impression you get when you see a whole page written with "I am not insane", just repeating itself. Now imagine the same words narrated by a voice, over and over again, for about a minute. Not really the same thing, is it?

Well, I feel satisfied with having read the whole series now. I would like to read something else by Mafi to see if she always writes like this, or if it's only for these books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

bri__'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I don't know how I felt about this book. I liked the flashbacks from Ella to Juliette and how that changed her behaviour. I don't understand why Emmaline wasn't talked about enough? After Oceania she wasn't spoken about again. I would've liked to see more interactions between Adam + James and Kenji + Nazeera. I also don't fully understand why Aaron was still rude to everyone even though he has good relationships with most of them and doesn't have any reason to dislike them. All of the interactions between Juliette and Anderson made me so uncomfortable, especially because she found him attractive. Overall, I sort of struggled to get through it around the mid way point. However, "come back to me, love" killed me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

vibinqvio's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

Imagine me was my least fav of the whole series. I was annoyed when reading the entire time, waiting for something satisfying to happen. And damn, that one scene with Aaron, I was in tears. Thank god it’s fast-paced and i finished it in like 2.5h reading time. A lot happened, and too much.

this whole juliette-affection-to-anderson thingy was pure disgust. i had to distance myself from my book seeing „You’re very handsome, sir“. No Juliette, no. Just no.

. Anyway, the last 100 pages were the best. The thing i don’t get is… Why is there no warner pov for the majority of the book? It would be great to see his thoughts while those events progressed. Kenji, my beloved, annoyed me in this book. I’m sorry to say and think that, but my dude kenji got on my nerves a lot for the certain things he said. i still love him. aaron broke my heart.  That epilogue was adorable and I’m currently reading believe me, which means, i will be leaving the shatter-me universe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and War