Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter

3 reviews

poetsofsweetpea's review against another edition

dark 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

4.25

COPTOWN is a plot forward thriller novel.  It's about cops, but it's not copaganda.  The characters in this book are awful.  I suppose it's hard to expect more from them in 1974.  The book is loaded with racism and sexism.  It's full of violence and hate crimes.  

The pacing was great and pulled me through the story.  I burned through it.

I liked it, but it had some real tough moments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Abortion

izypup's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

True to its time period, just about every slur possible is said in this book. It’s not really my place to comment on the use of slurs to make a time accurate book but was extremely aware that this is written by a white woman from Georgia who I do not believe to be Jewish. Another thing that gave me pause and took me out of the story is the fact that every man is enamored with Kate, even the gay ones. And even when her uniform is three times too big and couldn’t possibly show her boobs off 

Fox/Bixby even holds off on killing her because he wants to have sex with her too badly

I almost thought that Rick would be the shooter based on how much attention he got and that he was also a vet but was the “safest guy”. I didn’t mind it just being one of the assholes who stuck around Terry though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Car accident, Abortion, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, and Kidnapping

cit_cat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment