Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Cursed by Marissa Meyer

6 reviews

literarymary95's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I feel like this shouldn't be categorized as a young adult novel and is pretty much new adult genre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy and Blood

amyvbxx's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was better than gilded. Although I enjoyed guilded I thought sometimes it left holes and was dragged through plot points that maybe didn't pay off. 
I found this book to have a much better pay off and was more fast paced while still remaining readable. 
My main issue is the height of the drama happens very late into the book and I feel as though it spends a lot of time explaining unimportant aspects and then doesn't let the dust settle later in the story.

the Rumpelstiltskin twist was a little bit too on the nose to be dumped in right at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Blood

Minor: War

katewheels13's review

dark sad medium-paced

2.0

I actually dnfed this book around 300 pages. It dragged on and it felt like I was just reading a series of psychological torture throughout. It just wasn’t enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Emotional abuse

voldycat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Rape, War, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, and Child abuse

Minor: Abandonment

uranaishi's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Blood, Toxic relationship, War, Child abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Violence, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Well shes still stupid as fuck so at least the world is reliable ig

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Blood, and Child abuse