Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Project by Courtney Summers

84 reviews

hal2499's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

rebecca_t's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Confinement, Infidelity, and Murder

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Torture, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Minor: Murder and Ableism

aformeracceleratedreader's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

This wasn't as good as Sadie but still a worthwhile read. It was a little heartbreaking, a little scary, and even a little hopeful. It does leave me with some questions, but not the kinds that frustrate me.
Read content/trigger warnings beforehand! There is difficult content that could make this unenjoyable if you don't know ahead of time (there are multiple car accidents and as someone who has survived a pretty big one myself, it did kind of trigger me a little. Not enough to deter me from finishing the book tho).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

theresa__13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

amberinbookland's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Torture, Religious bigotry, Violence, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Grief, Physical abuse, and Murder

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Child abuse, Torture, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Child death

horizonous's review

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.25

The main issue I have with this book is that I almost got whiplash from jumping from chapter to chapter. SO MUCH happens in such a short time you get no time to process it - especially in the last quarter when all of a sudden (at least that's what it felt like) Lo

is completely infatuated with Lev, wants to join and defend the Unity Project and doesn't question the fact that her sister isn't even in the Unity Project anymore. I understand that people can get sucked into cults really quickly, but with her it was a 180-degree change in what felt like days

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I don't know, in comparision to Sadie this was such a letdown.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Infidelity

◦ Mental illness = Depression

permanme's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma

valzsc's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is one of those books I couldn’t stop thinking about when I wasn’t actively reading it. It’s full of mystery and darkness, two characteristics I constantly look for when choosing what to read next. But is also about trauma, individual and collective. For a young adult novel, there’s a very dark chapter near the end that I wasn’t expecting. Although I think it could’ve gone further. 

For me it was a fast paced slow burner. Some things I saw coming, like Emmy being Foster’s daughter and not Lev’s. His darkness and abuse, were there all the time, underneath the love bombing, doing God’s work and bringing people back from the death, allegedly… I could see where he was going, you know?

The chapter that had Lo being tortured and burned was hard to read, the way it’s written… I felt my stomach twisting and kept saying “no, no, no” out loud. Thinking that’s something Bea, Rob, Jeremy and others went through is heartbreaking. But that’s the reality in a lot of cults and shady religious groups. They break you and isolate you so they have this power over you, and then abuse you without worry of repercussions. 

What a nice book, I have to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Physical abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse