Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

242 reviews

gasleen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Addiction, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Vomit, and Abandonment

corabookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Overall plot was slow but lots of fast paced action scenes and stuff. Really liked the plot. Good combo of dark academia and fantasy and mystery. Got a little confused by the multitude of plot twists at the end but worked it out eventually. Alex is a fun character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

robinlovesrain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I didn't really feel gripped by this book until about halfway through - the pacing up front was a little slow, and there's a lot to learn about the world. But at about that halfway point, something tipped, and once the book had me, it HAD me. Dark and mysterious and violent and magical. Really really great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

evilspazcookie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

0.25

SA , child SA, hard drug use, mind control. Started good but deteriorated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

littlemissdev's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cordeliant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism and Vomit

maryyyyyy's review against another edition

2.5

‼️Trigger warnings definitely need to be published at the beginning of this book! If they could dedicate an entire page to information about the type face, they could have dedicated a page to avoid triggering or traumatizing readers.

This book has rape (including rape of an underaged girl), graphic murder scenes, drugs/drug overdose death, and a lot of violence and gore. It constantly reminds the reader of all of the gruesome ways that people can die. Some of it felt like it was just added for the shock factor. Somehow all of the characters just continue along like they don't all need therapy 🙄

Loved the magic and lore behind this story but it was much more graphic and violent than what I generally prefer to read. My bad for not doing my due diligence, but also their bad for not publishing any TWs in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

majthedragon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kallan11's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

gumboghost's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Murder