Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir

13 reviews

artemy_se's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Stalking, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

alitgentry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

annaavian's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

1.0

 This book is severely overrated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, and Gaslighting

annablanna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.0

Smashed through this in a couple of days. The three stories differ in style and content but each make a nuanced comment on marriage, female emotion, and mania. Inherently French and a picture of second-wave feminist writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Body shaming, Racial slurs, Racism, and War

virgcole398's review

challenging reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Classism

nicilaui's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

These three short stories about growing old and being abandoned really got to me emotionally. The last one in particular wasn't easy for me. Anyone who can identify with the hopeless situations of abandoned mothers will struggle here. Incredibly written. Only the first story has a heart-warming ending. I have to cope with the rest now. A very important piece of literature for anybody but especially for young people and women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

I couldn't connect with the first story, "The Age of Discretion." It was the soporific ramblings of a boy mom, and the last novella was annoying. The standout for me was definitely "The Monologue." Pure, unadulterated female rage, and maybe it's concerning, but I found myself relating a lot to the MC, Murielle, at least with the misanthropic and nihilistic thoughts, her acidic homophobic and racist diatribes notwithstanding. The writing was chef's kiss, run-on sentences and all. The psychotic stream of consciousness was both chaotic and tragic to follow, but reading Murielle's delusions of grandeur and excessive narcissism wasn't as dreadful as when men do it. I think this manifesto against the world is the one I'll keep coming back to, and maybe I'll even make it a tradition to read it on every new year's day starting next year lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

majesticbirdy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

4.5

ahh the horrors. do not read if you do not want your heart rate to spike.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

rowanelisa's review

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

mayabelang4's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship