Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 reviews

jedwards97's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse

booksbybookey's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Suicide

janecasasola's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Short but mentally exhausting 😓

*WARNING: SPOILERS*

Things I’ve picked up from this tragedy, and my own thoughts:

1. The world is extra cruel to helpless little girls; men think of themselves noble to take advantage of their weakness under the guise of “deed”
2. Marrying a teen 2 decades younger than you, no matter the intention, will never be acceptable
3. The silent treatment does more harm than administer damage control; communication is always vital in any type of relationship
4. Treating your young wife a child does not make you considerate. It is negligence and utter disregard of her mental and emotional capacities.

I will never question Dostoyevsky’s ability to write with much vividness, though immensely tragic, but I’ll be honest in saying that I CAN’T love this book for I cannot rack my brain enough to understand how one can endure reading the entire story in this clearly overly-egotistic & problematic “protagonist’s” POV? Everything felt so wrong that all my annotations were just hate comments about the pawnbroker :(

Can also just be that I’m getting tired of complex characters lol. I still want to read his more notable works, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Suicide

sasasareads's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Women’s mortality rates would lower if only men chose to get therapy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Emotional abuse

skade's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail