Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

5 reviews

emeraldcityreader's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Child death and Child abuse

Minor: Alcoholism

rosalind's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Blood, Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Rape, Excrement, and Religious bigotry

kelseak96's review

dark emotional reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Torture, Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Child abuse

kianga_black's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Child abuse, Abortion, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, and Blood

mrremi's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

This isn't my normal type of book, so if I liked historical fiction more maybe my rating would be higher.  I kind of just pushed through in the beginning because I'm reading for a reading challenge and I refused to give up.  But it wasn't as interesting and action packed as my usual fantasy books.  However, it did grow on me more and my goodness so many things happened over the course of the year.  Anna is a very strong woman but the most interesting part of her story to me was what happened in the epilogue honestly.  But I guess that it took her growth within this year to allow her to get to that different side of her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abortion, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, and Drug use