Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

5 reviews

eclipse799's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal death, Kidnapping, Suicide, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexism, Medical content, and Rape

cait_henry56's review

I cannot stand the characters, so I might return to this once that simmering rage has cooled. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Gore

emzhay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

Reading this book is like watching a train wreck with the most terrifyingly gorgeous cinematography. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia

queerbooklover03's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? No

3.5

A very interesting concept with some mostly well fleshed out characters and backstories, but the more time I spent in Dawit's head the less I liked him and thus, the sooner I wanted to finish the book. So I ended up pushing the last 10-20 percent of the novel as a quickly as possible to be done with it and done with Dawit. I found very well wrotten, but very frustrating and controlling, quite the opposite of amyone I would want to be with.
I did not like racism of "Night Song" and how they talked about her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Self harm, Child death, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Vomit, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

shannonsacoman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Stalking