Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

8 reviews

sandramarinis's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.25

This book really made me reflect on ethical dilemmas related to AI-technology. I never thought I would love a robot so much, but I ended up really liking Klara and wanting her to have her needs met. It's so weird since she technically doesn't have feelings like humans do, but she still has a strong moral compass which almost seems like human emotions. It's hard to explain this book.

For some reason I feel like this book would've made an even bigger impression on me if the ending was darker and unhappy. I didn't feel like it needed the happy ending, but that's just my personal opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Abandonment and Emotional abuse

kurumipanda's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Classism

Minor: Dementia

arlaubscher's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Slavery, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Grief and Dementia

Minor: Gaslighting, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Self harm, and Emotional abuse

mals_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Classism and Emotional abuse

ktnkrbl's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Classism, Chronic illness, Death, and Toxic friendship

maceydowns's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Child death, and Death

fraxisle's review

mysterious reflective 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Child death, Dementia, and Mental illness

Minor: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Xenophobia, and Gun violence

lex_r's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

I didn't think I was going to like this book and then I finished and I have no reason to give it anything less than a five. I was completely confused reading the whole novel, there was so little context into the world but for some reason it worked. I loved Klara and she reminded me of Wall-E, non-human but relates to human emotions beyond comprehension. I finished the book expecting the ending to gather the loose context and it didn't, but for an odd reason that was okay? Klara's story was done and her experiences left me asking so many unanswerable questions; but they have evidently been lost to time and I have to be okay with the resolution. To sum this up, I entered this book confused about Klara and the world context, left completely briefed on Klara and equally confused on world context, but is still satisfying. Also, now reflecting, this is essentially a revamp of the 2010's teenage coming of age dystopian revolution genre but better and more artistically nuanced, layered, and really a must read? Seriously it's just better, you will understand when you are done. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Terminal illness, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship