Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy

4 reviews

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I can't get past the part where

there's a romance between two women who consider themselves sisters? And.. nobody thinks that's weird?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Stalking, Gun violence, Animal death, Bullying, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, and Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racism, Rape, Lesbophobia, and Self harm

mcbadger's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Pregnancy and Self harm

decembermagpie's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Child abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Stalking, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, Infertility, and Religious bigotry

elysh_kaye's review

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 I was pleasantly surprised with this one. I don't typically read books within this genre, but I got pretty invested. You definitely need to have some patience as the first half is largely slow paced, but the second half is great :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Rape

Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Self harm