Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

27 reviews

theremightbecupcakes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

adarkswitch's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was such an original storyline. It was creepy, scary and sad. There are tons of trigger warnings: suicide, animal death, child death and abuse. If you can stomach all that....this was a very good book that will stick with me for a long time. A town of people who have become prisoners to fear for hundreds of years. Grief, fear and a curse....can all lead to chaos and disaster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal death, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Physical abuse and Murder

kingsteph's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Child abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Child death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Racism

coleyglasses's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

1.5

The concept for this book was fantastic but the ultimate execution was very much lacking, especially in the back half of the book. 
Additionally

Way too much nipple torture and very poorly written female characters

Made for an uncomfortable read at times and not in the good way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

cryptogay's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Really incredible, very creepy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Colonisation, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Medical content

chloe_lynne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

This Fucked me up is all i can say.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Torture

catsy2022's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Child death