Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

8 reviews

ohknellah's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Vomit, Death of parent, and Classism

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Such a strange story! Oddly (appropriately) enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

slimyfan's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

Beautiful book; amazing descriptions 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

scifi_rat's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gmrickel's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This book is literary fiction + scifi (dystopia) + psychological suspense. If you like reading about flawed, messy, morally grey characters making hard choices and experiencing dream-like oddities, this is a book for you! The writing is lush and complex, and the food descriptions are mouth-watering. The protagonist is bisexual (doesn't use that, or any, self-identifying term, but they describe being with partners of various genders). It ends

on a hopeful note that I wasn't expecting

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I read this to kick off my year of catching up on great 2023 scifi releases, as well as for Torches & Pitchforks (theme: red flag relationships). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Physical abuse

ieatbooks_'s review against another edition

reflective medium-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

2.25

I was excited going into this cause I thought it was a pretty interesting premise, but I found it very disappointing. It feels like it’s building towards a theme or message, but the experiences of the main character are never meaningfully dissected, or reflected upon. The ending is especially bad, but overall, it’s just messy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Car accident, and Death of parent

wynnebirchmaple's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

This short big runs deep and wide. It’s a lot of things… Dystopia, Socio-political commentary, Satire, Gastro Horror, Loss of a Mother story, and a cautionary tale regarding climate collapse, how we change food and food changes us and change is inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

It’s not as bad as the content warnings might suggest but it tries to be for brief moments. Is this why Ron Charles hated this book? I enjoyed it

dhritigupta's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

while parts of this were beautifully/vividly written, i don’t think the style was for me. 

i didn’t like the flashback format and the constant metaphors went over my head sometimes. i didn’t find the romance compelling or believable (which made the epilogue chapter feel off). the themes were somehow repetitive and hard to discern at the same time. 

while the descriptions of food were lush, the writing overall was too literary for my taste

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship