Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

1161 reviews

emilyarice's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.75

This was so good. Kya is such an emotionally deep character with a powerful mind but has been judged her entire life, and her prospects of love, daring and fun, and her very-real mistakes, truly made her embody a real human spirit. The novel was able to be informative and teach the reader about things that they would never learn on their own (specifically about the marsh) while also tugging at our heartstrings, making us love Tate but despise Chase. The one critique I have is that the last 2 chapters of the book could have been 6.

I understand that the end of the book was not the premise of the story but was rather giving the readers fulfillment with an end to the story. It just felt very rushed compared to the rest of the story, but it also makes sense because the rest of her life was lived in peace, while the intense parts that the book is actually about required more detail. 

Anyways, I loved the book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

lindsaywalsvick's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Racial slurs, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

bleesapp's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

iamlaura's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

luna_adamx's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Domestic abuse and Sexual violence

tradepaperback's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Racial slurs

julia201's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• 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: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, and Abandonment

dorynickel's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

1.0

This book is very readable, but unfortunately just not very good.

The prose is stilted and awkward, many of the characters aren't interesting, and the plot is never all that intriguing beyond the suspense element. Top that off with weird implausibilities like

a woman being charged with *capital* murder in the 1960s for the murder of her rapist

and overall this makes for a book that your coworker and grandma loved but you just can't figure out what they liked about it.

1/5 not worth it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs and Rape

Minor: Alcoholism and Grief

shadowsportrait's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Racial slurs

sophiestrahorn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

I have two main issues with this book

1. I kept waiting for it to be over. There was a bit of pace when the trial started but by that point I didn’t feel emotionally invested in the characters enough to really care about the verdict. Especially, after the verdict I think the book should have ended. If discredited any semblance of good plot by rushing the next 40 years into like 20 pages and I feel the reason wasn’t enough to cheapen the novel

2. The main character reflected a lot of racist stereotypes eg. Being a “savage” and “wild”, illiterate, poor, abused, isolated; but it felt like the author was trying to get away with it because the main character was white- a thinly veiled opinion. Like all these reflect racism but we are meant to believe that it’s not because the character is white

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape