Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

92 reviews

sage_alexandra's review against another edition

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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Bullying, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Cursing, Murder, Violence, Gore, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Body horror, and Medical content

Minor: Genocide, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Vomit, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Stalking, and Animal death

linblythe_pub22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Abandonment, Sexual assault, Violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Animal death, Blood, Grief, and Death

joblo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Cute! I don’t typically enjoy books about teenagers and I almost DNF-ed it at the beginning but I ended up enjoying it. Definitely takes a minute to get into the story/warm up to the main character, but her voice is fun and the characters all feel very human. 

I love high fantasy but get really annoyed when authors build bigotry into the world (like you can write about dragons but people are still sexist/homophobic? Lack of imagination, tbh) so I enjoyed the casual representation here!

I felt like this was a good standalone story but I might pick up the sequel eventually to revisit the world/characters bc they’re so fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

alychee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

(i had a whole ESSAY written but obviously my phone died before i could send it so i'll rewrite it later)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Body shaming

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

Good, solid worldbuilding alongside character development. From the first page, you know exactly who the main character is and why she does the things she does. Sometimes heavy on the symbolism, but I cannot fault the pacing, the twists, the characters, the romance and friendships that seemingly blossom naturally. Nothing in this story feels forced. Poldi and Ragne honestly have my whole heard, and Barthl is on track to be up there as one of my favourites if he appears in the next book. It was genuinely such a delight to read, but it was also so genuinely heartbreaking at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Classism, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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This book lived up to my expectations. I had a wonderful time reading it. The characters were well-developed and I liked the various relationships. I liked the relationship between Vanja and Emeric. The worldbuilding was good. The plot was a little predictable, there were a few twists that I didn't see, and the writing style was good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death

amyteurhour's review against another edition

3.5

Content warning: abandonment, child abuse, neglect, rape, classism, toxic relationship, panic attack

The pacing felt a bit slow and dragged out for me, but overall a decent amount of angst. I wish the friendship between the Goose Girl/main character and the bird girl were more developed. The bird girl's relationship felt kind of instalove. I did check out Book 2, but haven't gotten around to it/made it a priority to read, make of that what you will. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Toxic friendship

zannayo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse and Body shaming

kourteb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

“Little thieves steal gold, and great ones steal Kingdoms, but only one goes to the gallows.”

Easily 5 stars. Officially my favorite book. Vanja I will defend you WITH MY LIFE. If Vanja has no supports I AM DECEASED. The queerness is this world is so incredibly beautiful, words cannot describe how seen these romances make me feel. Vanja’s hurt is so heartbreaking but her strength and character development is such a heartwarming experience.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Grief, Body shaming, and Abandonment

bequavious's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Animal death, and Sexual assault