Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

81 reviews

kyahs's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed the book and it was narrated very well. The characters were lovable and I found myself wanting to learn more about them. The writer is brilliant at character development. This book is most about the  generational trauma that the characters experience. I found it powerful and would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Infidelity

clairew97's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

arbramirez's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

soshereads_'s review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Abortion

saara_ilona_muu's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

reb_vo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Family drama of the social elite, following the families life stories with their highest and lowest points. 
This book is about who we choose to love and who we don’t 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

lindasoderlundd's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

creativelifeofliz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-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

3.0

The first half of this book was pretty terrible and I actually thought about DNFing it several times. It got better for the second half, as long as you accept that there aren't any actually likeable characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Miscarriage, Car accident, and Pregnancy

babsi_222's review

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favourite authors, I think, and I’ve only read two of her books!
So this book is about a family and their history and you really get to see into each of the siblings/ and every family members mind. they’re a family who live near the ocean and I’ve never read a book that’s about surfers, which was really cool.
So there is a famous party where every hollywood star is and like the author said in the Q&A it’s really inspired by the great Gatsby. It was quite interesting, but it just kind of felt like one of those romance movies (Love Actually), because sometimes in between the chapters about the family you have like two pages where there’s a random star who hooks up with someone else or who finds the love of their life at this party, which is just so random, but kind of fun tbh
literally all of the men in this book are red flags!!!

  Oh my God the women (June and Nina) get pushed around by them, but there’s some very good character development in the end which is everything I ever wanted while reading! God I hate Mick Riva so much how can you be such a horrible person?? 

 
 To be honest I’m not sure if I’m going to read ‘Carrie Soto is back’ any time soon because she does not seem like a great person in this book. I’m sure that it’s going to be interesting but I think I just don’t wanna read it right now. 
Junes story makes me so mad omg :((( 
There’s soooo much drama at the party btw holy shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, and Outing

emablackburnreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail