Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac

11 reviews

richy_qu33r_readzz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

2.25

Too much unnecessary animal deaths and jokes about animal harm. 
The theme was only lightly threaded and not the cozy book I expected. Felt disjointed in places, but maybe that’s designed to feel like memories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Violence

sabrinaleaf's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.0

2.5 ⭐️ 
I dont know the point of the story was 😭. It felt like we were passing from one thing to another without giving it much time and I quickly got lost. It got to the point that I didn’t even know the characters ages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

mahalar's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, and Car accident

erks's review against another edition

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Racism, Suicide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, and Bullying

Minor: Miscarriage

maggie_gentner's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A softly brutal book, the sort in which more is said by what is not said.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Suicide

stasiana's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Classism

franksreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

taryndeanne's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, and Colonisation

zee's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Set in the 50s through 60s, this is a coming of age novel of a boy living on a reserve in the Okanagan Valley in BC, with all the hardships, complications, and trauma that come with it. 

The adult characters may be difficult to relate to, but you get a sense of the many driving factors behind their decisions and their impact on Eddie. All of the characters are wildly complicated, as a result of many different hardships.

I understand why it was longlisted for both Canada Reads 2022 and the 2022 Giller Prize, as well as being a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. It's very well-written, and hard to believe that it is a debut of the author. 

This is a very heavy book, though it sneaks up on you; lulling you in with mild optimism when Eddie is young. Be mindful of content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, and Racism

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

schaarzy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Hate crime, Medical content, and Medical trauma