Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

278 reviews

tarnaflake's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

aharper's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, and Suicide

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

bumblebree1903's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Violence and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Rape

nxpe's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4 December 2023: 4 stars

I can't stop thinking about this series, so it deserves to be at least a four star.

28 November 2023: 3.75 stars

This was really fun. For some reason, I went into this expecting nothing more than just a magical carnival, so I was very surprised to say the least. 

I really enjoyed Scarlet as a main character, and her love for her sister, Donatella was a beautiful relationship to read about. Watching them go to these extreme lengths to try and protect each other was truly heart warming.

I also really enjoyed the love story. Scarlet's love interest,

Julian

, is also a really great character, and I really enjoyed his personality. I hope I get to see more of them and their relationship in the next two books, even though

I know the focus switches to Donatella in this next book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

carlyjoann's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Physical abuse, Child death, Child abuse, and Murder

kristen_sav's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Blood, Death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

savanah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

It’s kind of like if the author took the Original Peter Pan (the dark one where Peter kills the lost boys when they’re too old), Alice in wonderland, and just a touch of terror/horror genre, gaslighting, mixed in with with the most cliche YA tropes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicide, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment

ecq234's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

It was really good until around the end where everything got a little too complicated just wrapped up  really quickly in a pretty a bow at the end. I know there’s more books, so hopefully  those books answer my question, but honestly

I wouldn’t have forgiven Tella and Julian so easily like girl, they lied to you and put you through hell for the past week for what????

still a really fun book though. Even if I got complicated, I enjoyed reading it

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment

serenamaya's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder