Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Verbeeld Me by Tahereh Mafi

19 reviews

carloscapy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

Most of the story was a bit confusing and I wasn't really sure what was happening, but overall it was really good. The last page was my favourite out of the whole book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicide, and Death of parent

donatio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

This felt like the last hundred pages of a book when there is the final fight, which it was, of course.
It was a good ending to the series but the tension was beginning to wear of before everything ended. Therefor it was nice, but nothing special. 
<spoiler >There were some things I wondered about when I started reading the series which didn't come up anywhere, e. g. what about periods? What about sexual protection and stuff?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

I read this book some weeks ago and can't remember all the tws I wanted to put but one should definitely check the tws in the description of the book.

gothmiku's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

chloelj27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Torture, and War

Minor: Alcohol

bananapie123's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense

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

3.0

the thing i liked most about this book were probably winston and brendan other than that it wasn’t exactly great. 

i really wanted more nazeera in this book, there was literally no reason for one of the most interesting characters to become so irrelevant it’s like the author forgot that she exited

the whole juliette/anderson part was so creepy and unnecessary… sighs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and War

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

izzydelaya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

antjeliest's review against another edition

<Spoiler> I just couldn’t stand Ella/Juliette being drawn to Anderson. That is not right. This whole story line with her being a puppet and Anderson magically coming back to life all the time. So disgusting. It destroyed the whole story for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol