Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Sadie by Courtney Summers

337 reviews

dynamogk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

laketwentytwo's review against another edition

dark mysterious relaxing tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Murder, Addiction, Drug use, and Sexual assault

pagesihavenotyetread's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

robin_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

This was much sadder than I expected it to be. 
Check TW/CW before reading this. 
It’s heavy on the topics of revenge in connection with grief and sexually abused children. 
It left me feeling angry and sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Murder, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer

lucyisabella's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

It kind of gave me good girls guide to murder vibes with the murder and podcast elements. I thought that the dual perspectives was an interesting way to write the story but I really enjoyed it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Addiction, Abandonment, and Adult/minor relationship

daturas's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Murder, and Pedophilia

The child abuse and pedophilia I added into my content warnings is a large part of the main plot, but the actual abuse is only alluded to in flashbacks or briefly in person. You are never witness to it.

bookedbymadeline's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

It’s a dark, heartbreaking book with twists I didn’t see coming. I loved the switches from Sadie’s POV to the podcast with West! It’s a unique concept for a novel, which made it even more interesting to read. It took some time to get into the story as the first half was a bit slower and more detailed, especially from Sadie’s chapters. By the second half I flew through the pages, not wanting to put it down.

I think the ending was perfect for this type of story. The pacing overall was also fairly well done, with nothing being rushed or dragged out! There’s a lot of characters so although we only get to really know a few of them, the side characters are still well written. We get enough of a description to picture them but most of them we only get passing glimpses rather than any depth as we take the journey with Sadie. I know I’m going to be thinking about this one for a long time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Death and Suicide attempt

daisyfont's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Child death, Child abuse, Rape, Death, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident

vincentedward16's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Car accident

curlscout's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Drug use, and Grief