Reviews tagging 'Incest'

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

34 reviews

bonz_authorshipdown's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Harrowing, Vicious, Disgusting, Painful, Depressing and Abhorrent 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

aa111's review against another edition

challenging dark

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

aishafanky's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

megletronic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I originally gave this 1 star because the content made me ILL- but the reality is it was just triggering for me. The author does a really well done style of writing to convey the panic going through the main character’s thoughts. 0/10 experience but a 1 star wasn’t fair. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

This book is written in prose/stream of consciousness and is hard to follow at times

h_nn_hp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

afranke2016's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.75

The book was great. The writing can be difficult to read at times. The plot wasn't my cup of tea but I see why people like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

ada_km's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense

4.75

The writing style was very interesting, unlike anything I have read before, but so clever. So raw and real, gut-wrenching, disgusting, cold, terrible - I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, and Suicide

fionasula's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Grief

shafia42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

wow. initially i was relucant to start the book, id never read anthing that had a similar wrting style, so it felt dauting. i got about 20-30 pages in still confused and not really clicking iwth the book but then i read a review of the book written by somone who was blown away and i decided to continue. and im so glad i did. once you get into the rythm of the writing you are turely transported, but the thing thats differnt about this book is that youre not imagine like a movie with all the things that happen but rather only the feeling. it felt a lot like reading muisc, the book takes you through so much emtions, so much so that some scenes were too graphic and hard to get through even though the passages were only a few sentances long. you get transported into the narrators head and fwhilke you read this book you are her. i cried so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Rape

foolygirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, and Abandonment