Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

4 reviews

jqmnew's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

voilajean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Stalking, Death, Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Alcoholism, and Antisemitism

Minor: Slavery, Colonisation, and Acephobia/Arophobia

theoldestbennetsister's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Alcoholism

moonlightnerd's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

Surprisingly, this might be my favorite of the welcome to night vale companion novels. I honestly was not expecting that. Though, this does mean each novel they put out is better than the last, which is what authors AND readers would want, so ultimately this is a good thing!
Anyway! Great book! Different from the other companion novels, more "traditional", which I guess is a product of it not being set in night vale, therefor not having the strange normalcy of the other books' setting. Instead, what I enjoyed so much about this book was the plot and the twists throughout, some which I guessed, some which I didn't.
Also I'm coming to realize I generally enjoy books that follow a single person's entire life from childhood to adulthood and, in some cases,beyond. Something about seeing just how many lives can be squeezed into a single life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicide and Domestic abuse