Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

266 reviews

__sav__'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual harassment

themelodyofspring's review against another edition

sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

soumil_da_vinci's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

aurelius's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

thatweirdbookgirlie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

This book was absolutely heartbreaking in the best possible way. A look at bullying from the eyes of a fourteen year old boy. In this story we see the why of the bullies as well as the why of why he just "accepts" the bullying.  Despite such a heavy topic it was an engaging read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

matschel's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This book hurt on so many different levels

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Death of parent

star101's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual harassment

pilartyping's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

saunak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

3.75

This book was extremely hard for me to listen to and even harder to rate.
'Heaven' follows two middle-schoolers' treacherous bullying experiences. Initial frustrations and experiences slowly evolve into philosophical musings and questions to understand existence and nihilism. The author highlights everything from mockery due to physical appearance, morality, good vs evil, humanity or the lack of it, innocence or the loss of it, and more. Although spoken via fictional experiences of 14-year-olds (their words, thoughts, and actions are shocking and quite disturbing), the author vividly holds up a mirror to prick the audience's morality through these extremely uncomfortable cascading narratives. The end does have a positive note, but the book left a bitter aftertaste and truly so (what the author aimed for, I guess).

'...weakness matters, it has real meaning....but know what? If weakness matters so does strength and I don't mean weak people using the idea of strength to justify their weakness...'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt