Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

17 reviews

kirstencholewa's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Antisemitism

mysterymom40's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Sexism

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

temast62's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, and Gaslighting

chelle22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-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

4.0

This book helped me out of a reading slump. I hate you Albert Einstein. Loved and appreciated the story of Mileva Marić. She deserved so much better.

. Gobsmacked and astonished as the story of the untold in school, Milevan “Mitza” Marić. I’m well aware that most of it is exaggerated and fiction but I’m amazed at the trials and tributes that she has been through until her separation from Albert. Even before meeting him, things weren’t easy. Her intelligence and character never wavered.

Yet he tried to keep her into the mold he saw fit, she was able to escape.

Not too many women are able to do that unscathed, not that she wasn’t. But she was able to make it out alive.

The rage I felt throughout the story about her contribution to the theory of relativity in 1905 and not only not being credited, but being diminished by the man she loved and was there when she told him of her discovery. IN RELATION TO HER LATE DAUGHTER.

She gave up every single part of herself for him. She tried so hard and yet was never able to be enough for him. I’m hoping desperately that it’s not reflecting the true story of Mileva but I don’t know. It might be. Her relationships with the other characters and her sons, and science, the thing that made her so happy and content, she was completely deprived of. It was just so heartbreaking and rewarding to read it.

  I’m glad she got out and I’m sadden that she never got the recognition she deserved. 

Remarkable women, to do what she did in spite of the narcissistic and selfish man who couldn’t handle the fame. Thoughts and prayers to her descendants. 

“You’re a genius at everything but the human heart”

“Albert we may be Ein Stein (one stone), but it has been clear that we are of two hearts” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

klbreyfogle's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse

mc860's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

3.25

Very glad to learn more about this story, but the misogyny was infuriating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Misogyny

Moderate: Domestic abuse

jberg216's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Justice for Mileva Marić. Men are trash and this book made me so angry and sad. Even if only half of what was imagined was true the works was robbed of a great mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

dorotheafromthesea's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Domestic abuse

zinelib's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Oof--Einstein, at least as portrayed her, was a DOUCHE. It's really hard to read how abusive and dismissive he was to his partner. Ugh. The historical part of the book is interesting--what it was like to be a young scientist in turn-of-the-century Europe, including the bigotry against Eastern Europeans and Jews. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Domestic abuse