Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Jutro, jutro i znów jutro by Gabrielle Zevin

270 reviews

luneclaire's review against another edition

emotional medium-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

I don't know how to rate this book. At first, I wasn't in the right frame of mind to read it, but when I finally was, I couldn't put it down. It emotionally slayed me. It got under my skin. I'll probably think about it for a while. I can't tell you definitively if I liked it or not, but I don't regret it.

TW: There is a description of an active shooter scene. If you are someone who has been affected by gun violence, please know this is part of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexism, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Grief, Toxic friendship, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Drug use, Pregnancy, Cancer, and Abortion

laur_o's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Ableism

roisindoylebakare's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Cancer, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Ableism, and Adult/minor relationship

ecutler's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Chronic illness, Grief, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Blood, Cancer, Abortion, Mass/school shootings, and Pregnancy

sas_lk's review against another edition

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

3.25

It was a decent book, but I would not say it blew me away. I can't say whether that is because of my high expectations, or because of the book itself though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Gore, Cancer, Drug use, Racism, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Cultural appropriation

oldsilverarrow's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I was completely in love with this book when I began it and well into, I was loving everything about it. I was invested in the characters, even if I found Sadie a bit unbearable since she’s ridiculously self centered. I wrongly assumed that trait would resolve itself as we watch the characters age. Sam was a delight. I see myself deeply in him and even for all his harshness, he was right about everything.

Until I got to the shooting scene. It felt almost tacky somehow as though a different writer had sat down at the keyboard. Just when the tension between all our characters got good, it’s like no one wanted to try out the confrontation or tough conversations so one of the characters gets killed off so the other two never have to speak again. I was intensely frustrated from that point on. It seemed in this moment desperate to speak to the modern day American outlook as if the book suddenly began pointing and saying ‘look! It’s like real life.’ It completely pulled me out of the story.

overall the book was enjoyable and so real and good until… it just felt flat by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

jamieruth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

rexjoi's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Gun violence, Car accident, and Emotional abuse

crowlaplumme's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

 There are parts of this book that I really liked and other parts where I was lost and confused about how I felt about the book. Up until halfway through the book, I thought it was going to be a solid 5 star rating but sadly, the second half didn't land the finish for me.

[SPOILERS]

I REALLY wanted Sam to be the asexual and aromantic icon. Sadly that didn't end up being the case. Once Sadie had begun dating Marx, Sam's character turned into one of bitter jelousy and of the mindset that people belonged to one another. It was a bummer because I was rooting for Sam through his entire story arc, especially when he began experiencing phantom pains and depression. When Sam mentioned how he didn't care for sex during that brief rendez-vous with Lola, I was estatic, thinking that he was ace. I love a good platonic relationship between a man and woman, and Sam and Sadie's was just that; until it wasn't.

Sadie was an interesting character, her paranoia felt very real. Her depression after getting an abortion and losing Marx felt genuine. However, Sam pulled himself together for the sake of their company, while Sadie had a harder time. At some points, despite wanting to be empathetic to what Sadie was going through-- especially pregnant, it was hard to see her absence in the company and what it meant for other characters (characters, we begun to care for, like the other workers of Unfair Games, who couldn't continue to work on the DLC). Whether it meant delaying the DLC or cancelling it altogether, Sadie's inaction affected others at Unfair Games who had undergone the same trauma of losing Marx (sure, not in the capacity of losing a lover, but as a co-worker and friend. Not to mention, some of them were in the building when the confrontation went down.)

I'm certain I'm not alone when I say that Marx was the best character in the book. My eyes were glued to the page when we got that solo chapter from Marx's perspective. His romance with Sadie felt natural, there was a romantic interest initially, but then they became friends. It made their relationship solid. Unlike, Sam's 180 to desperately wanting Sadie's romantic affection. The best part about Marx is understanding that despite his death, the memory of him was able to pull Sam out of his stupor ("What would Marx do?"). His memory being immortalized by Sadie and Sam in their games, was a lovely detail to the positivity that he brought-- I just wished we got more of him alone and getting to have some time with understanding who he was without Sadie, Sam, and Zoey.

However, I felt as if that last portion of the book, with Emily and Dr. Daedalus was where it all really fell apart for me. Sadie consistantly made selfish choices that she blamed on Sam, inferring parts of his character. For example, she believed that Sam tricked her into getting back with Dov in order to get the Ulysses game engine for Ichigo. She made the decision to get back with him, but she goes about the story saying that she had no agency in the matter. I liked Sadie as the professor, who understands her shortcomings, and uses it as a positive experience to get others to grow. As opposed to making the game, with her name on it and blaming its poor sales on Sam's "sabotage."

A reoccuring theme about the relationship between Sam and Sadie is that Sam is the one constantly reaching out to Sadie and it is not reciprocated. Sam noticed she was depressed and stayed with her until she got out of bed. Sam was the one who had to pull himself together for Unfair Games. Sam was the one to reach out to her as Daedalus. However, when Sam needed a friend after his surgery, Sadie was nowhere to be found. Again, while Sam did not lose Marx as a lover, he lost an incredibly important friend, but Sadie did not feel that she could confide in him. Sam, who felt incredible guilt that the attackers wanted HIM and not Marx, yet Marx took the bullet for him.

(Also, the two men who stormed the building were unhappy that Mapletown allowed for same-sex marriage. A concept that Sadie recommended to Sam, for their friends Ant and Simon. However, Marx's death was the fault and action of the two men, alone. However, under Sadie's flawed logic to claim that it was Sam's fault, "They were after you," than, to an extent, she can be responsible, too. This is a part of Sadie's character that really bothers me.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Ableism, Death, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Grief

Moderate: Cultural appropriation and Car accident

Minor: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Racism

Internalized ableism

mixyplixl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident and Cancer

Minor: Abortion