Reviews tagging Emotional abuse

La bugia di mezzanotte, by Marie Rutkoski

46 reviews

raebies_03's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was amazing. The tension had me kicking my feet and giggling like nobody's business.

The manipulation and abuse from Raven definitel  hit a nerve with me. I hate seeing people being taken advantage of and as someone who has been in Nirrim's position, I felt very connected to her character. In saying that, I also connected to Sid in the way she was so angered to see Raven treat Nirrim as she did.

I'm looking forward to continuing the series. Very happy to close out the year with a 5⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Homophobia

motaki's review against another edition

Maybe I'll give it another go but it's a character driven book and I don't like Nirrim very much, I feel sorry for her but it's taking ages to go anywhere. 
I would love it if we were following Sid, she seems quite an interesting person instead of our MC, whom is stuck in abusive relationships, and in a comp-het society. 
Norrim just piles up her mistakes, because she is convinced she doesn't deserve anything and lets others bully her. 
I thought she would outgrow her fears but it's taking forever and I'm too old to keep reading things that feels like pulling teeth

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.0

The beginning wasn’t very interesting but then the middle got better. I was getting excited to read the second one until the very last line. That last line made me so very angry, however I still need to read the second book to see what happens with said last line. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Torture, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Lesbophobia, Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content and Body horror

Minor: Child abuse

nicnevin's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.0

So this is the first book I've read from this author and its... Alright? I found the ending quite... Abrupt and the worldbuilding is a little slapdash however I realise that this is already set in a world from other books she wrote. 

Sid and Nirrim are a cute couple but I don't know how it ends. I guess leaving the book on such an abrupt ending ticked me off because it felt like a lot of build up for not much pay off bit I suppose that's why is more than one book. 

Spoiler

the magic blood reveal was pretty obvious so it annoyed me it took everyone so long to figure it out. Also shouldnt diluted blood be a yellowy orange colour? Maybe magic blood hits different idk

Don't get me wrong, the book is okay but just didn't gel with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Medical content, Murder, Outing, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Ableism, Child death, Drug abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Drug use, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

sandy_21's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad fast-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? Yes

4.75

the ending suckssss

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Abandonment, Drug abuse, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Child death, and Death of parent

annaki_laila's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.0

The bulk of the important plot points only started happening past the halfway point. There were enough moments of miscommunication to get on my nerves, though it could've been worse. Overall lacking in the world-building department; the base concept was interesting but there just wasn't enough to get properly immersed in.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, and Death

octopus_farmer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

It really did throw the potential for the next book in the trash huh. Other worldbuilding was cool and I liked Sid and Nirrim’s relationship but that ending really didn’t do anything for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Injury/injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Blood

alsoapples's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child death, Classism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Police brutality, and Violence

haylzno's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This was almost a DNF for me. 
The plot really seemed to... stall, like a bunch of times. I found myself getting bored frequently. 
I did listen to this as an audiobook and narration is really a make it break thing for me and I wasn't a huge fan of the narration, so honestly that played a big part. 

I always love me so good queer rep. But the MC and her relationship with her "mother" made me irrationally frustrated. By the time I decided I wanted to DNF I was only about an hour from finishing it so I pushed through, and honestly I don't remember a whole lot because I just couldn't make myself care. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Classism, Death of parent, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Homophobia and Drug use