Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen

17 reviews

tartanshelf's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Outing

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Toxic friendship

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Deadnaming, Infidelity, Medical content, and Outing

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

lidia7's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexual content, Vomit, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Outing, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

It was so easily readable, and I ran through the book so quickly. Each of the characters quickly pulled me in, and I was invested in their stories. However, it also kinda felt like an opening chapter to each of their stories. Like I want to know more. How it will continue. I want to explore their issues in greater depth. This really felt just too short and it just sort of skimmed the surface of it all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Xenophobia, Excrement, and Vomit

morebedsidebooks's review

4.0

Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager, features a cast of queer twenty-somethings each give their own turn at narrating overlapping events in Greenland’s capital city.

See an in-depth review on my blog. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, and Outing

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, and Colonisation

One drunken hookup brings up questions of dubious consent.

nagev's review

fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pedophilia

someonelikeblue's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cursing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Vomit, Outing, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Murder, and Colonisation

lilly_anne's review

challenging reflective fast-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

lostinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-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 appreciated reading this book from a culture that I know next to nothing about. The atmosphere at their parties, and in their homes was palpable and really dumped me right into this new land.

The characters were all individual and each had their own struggles that were alluded to and became clearer as they took over the narrative. Of all the perspectives, I enjoyed the final perspective from Sara the most as it not only had the most conventional writing style, but her inner dialogue was so different to how she was viewed by the other characters.

Unfortunately the aforementioned writing style was an issue for me. A lot of murkiness and stream of consciousness that just wasn't my jam. The characters also acted quite illogically a lot of the time and were hard to get a handle on even within their own narratives. 

Overall I enjoyed and appreciated this book but can't see myself remembering it much in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Dysphoria

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

internationalreads's review

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, and Alcohol