Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

3 reviews

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Islamophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

fkshg8465's review against another edition

dark emotional relaxing sad slow-paced

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

2.25

This book made me so angry. The protagonist embodies patheticism, and his whole life can only be described as futile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

colormecaro's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.5

Borrowed this as an ebook so I wasn’t able to highlight any of the beautiful language. If I had a physical copy you could probably see it from space from all the highlighting. 

Instead, what I do is copy the quotes that speak to me into my notes app. Compared to other such book quote notes, this one is probably the longest. I’d try and narrow it down but it really isn’t possible. 

Yes, the book also has flaws. It took me a really long time to get used to the main narrator. I didn’t care for the Coda chapter much. The plot twist is quite predictable. I thought the ending was a bit odd. But I pretty much devoured the last two thirds of the book and I just can’t get over how beautiful the author illustrates his thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Excrement, Islamophobia, Grief, and Death of parent