Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique

6 reviews

sassysoles82's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Colonisation, Infidelity, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Racism, and Child death

Minor: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, and Death

friendlypoet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racial slurs, Incest, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Classism, Racism, and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

siobhanward's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

 This was really a disappointment for me. It started off really icky and while the ick was kind of reduced, it never really got better plot-wise. Both of the protagonists were just shells - there was no development other than them being selfish and shallow. If they'd just taken a couple minutes to think about anyone other than themselves, things might have worked out better for them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Pregnancy and Infidelity

notallbooks_mp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Colonisation, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, and Infidelity

internationalreads's review

The incestuous sexual abuse of a child was romanticized as a “relationship.” Nope nope nope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

kylieqrada's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.5

2.5⭐s. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH INCEST IN THIS BOOK?!?! I liked everything else about it: the story, the Caribbean setting/history/characters, the folklore, the language, the way it was told, the non-incestuous romances, and even the romances that were incestuous would have been good EXCEPT INCEST. Can you tell I just really wish there hadn't been so much incest? Huge, huge disappointment for me. I would pick up other work by Tiphanie Yanique in the future though. (Just please God no more incest). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Xenophobia