Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

10 reviews

denlia's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Moderate: Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Bullying, Grief, Eating disorder, Vomit, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

emsavors's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Eating disorder, Gore, Grief, Vomit, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Death, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Alcohol, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

crweber25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicide, Car accident, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Death, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Ableism

ghosthermione's review against another edition

This is not how space agencies work.  This is not how mental health works. This is not how you plan a mission. Let alone a 20 year nonstop mission. This is not how human (and children's) rights work either. And you don't replace your astronauts a day before the start of mission either with an untrained unhealthy kid OR an untrained adult. Or ignore 

  a death on the team 

  and give no aftercare to the kids who witnessed it before you send them off. The lack of thinking in the worldbuilding made me give up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, and Eating disorder

rachelcollins's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

hkingcrab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

A slow burn and suspense novel about kids and a futuristic world that parallels colonialism <3 through space travel. I still think about these characters and this story even after a couple years since reading. I would definitely reread it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Blood, Colonisation, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

stayshomeandreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

nyoom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Ableism, Infidelity, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia

imrereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but I found myself sucked into the stort nevertheless. The biggest way it diverged from my expectations is that it's very much a character-driven books, rather than plot-driven. 

There's quite a diverse cast of characters, many whom I loved and a few which I very much disliked (looking at you, Harry). 

While at it's heart this is a stoey about reaching this utopian planet Terra-Two, a more thsn two dacade long journey away, it's much more and much less than that. All these different characters with all their conplexities and flaws gets their moment in the spotlight. As the main characters are very young, there's very much 'young drama' as well, which sometimes felt a bit meh (to me as an adult), but I had a great time in this story. I didn't think I was going to be all that invested in the beginning, but by the end I was very emotional. 

If you're looking for a character-driven sci-fi and don't mind inaccurate and (what I completely unedcuatedly assume is) somewhat unrealistic space travel history, you might just love this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Cancer, Bullying, Confinement, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Vomit, and Violence

Minor: Car accident

sarah984's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

This book was way too slow and boring for me - the first really exciting to occur in the book happened around the 76% mark. Most of the book was just the teen characters arguing and complaining about everything. It doesn't make sense to me that any of these people were cleared to fly. They all have extremely obvious issues, their personalities clash constantly (they will have to live together in a confined space for 23 years!) and they always seem to take the opportunity to make a bad decision. The religious aspects were also really off-putting to me, and it's weird how the writing leans so hard into psychological issues but always seems to shy away from racism and colonialism when they come up.

There were a few quotes I liked (plus the one exciting thing and a couple of the adult characters) but it's not enough to ever recommend this to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Racism