Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

3 reviews

siglerbooknook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

I've watched the show for Outlander on Starz before, but this was my first time reading the book.
I was surprised how true to the plot the tv show stayed.
A few characters are different, either in appearance, or not appearing at all.

I think my favorite difference was in Claire. It always bothered me in the show how rediculously modern she was, for all she's supposed to be intelligent. Many of the moments in the show that made me roll my eyes because "why would she be that stupid" never even happen in the book. 

The chapters near the end with Captain Randall were too much for me and I did skim through them. I was glad to have some warning from the show on how bad it could be.

Over all I loved the book and look forward to recommending it to friends. It was a tad long and I found myself dragging through the last 200 pages. Still, I look forward to reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Infertility, Suicide, Blood, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

willow_belle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

It's bloody good!

nutmeginnz's review against another edition

honestly disgusting. weak and flopsy female lead. had to stop after she was beaten by a husband she was forced to marry and forgave him after 1 day. i would never forgive a partner that type of abuse and had to stop reading before she slept with him again and became all he so amazing ( makes me feel physically sick) 
DID NOT FINISH - got 46% of the way through and it was awful

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail