Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Confessions by Kanae Minato

36 reviews

rionstorm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book wasn't what I expected and it kept surprising me. They handled a few topics in ways I wasn't the biggest fan of, but overall it was written in and interesting way and I didn't see the twists coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Terminal illness, Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Bullying

Moderate: Violence, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

CW:

terrorism

awebofstories's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

atalea's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Bullying

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

soniaa5's review against another edition

dark tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Vomit, Animal death, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

stacym's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide attempt

eabh's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I knew from reading the back of this book’s that it’s genre and plot was not my cup of tea. However, it was a pick for a book club read. And for the first half of the book, I was intrigued and mildly engaged. But when shit hit the fan in the second half, I was left feeling disturbed, frustrated, and disappointed.

This book was much more distressing than I anticipated. Through the shifting perspectives of Confessions, you learn more about the experiences that happen that shape the character’s beliefs and decision making. I found there to be so much senseless violence and cognitive over analysis that I was both unsettled and uninvested in this book. 

Besides that, this novel felt very far fetched and unlikely to happen IRL, so it was challenging for me to suspend reality and stay invested through this book. 

A few things I did enjoy: the multiple narrator style was well written and the dynamics between the characters was interesting to see unravel in the story. 

Overall, this book was slow, repetitive, and twisted to me. 2 stars feels generous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Blood

Moderate: Miscarriage and Toxic relationship

Minor: Miscarriage

paigie_pie's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

it was a creeping slow burn but worth the experience at least once

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child death, Murder, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Mental illness, Child abuse, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Grief

this book does have a consistent mention of A.I.Ds and purposeful exposure the disease

callidoralblack's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse, Bullying, Death, Grief, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

sydneylount's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Murder, Child abuse, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

rachaelrichcreek's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Stalking, Death, and Murder