Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

175 reviews

gretchenela's review

3.75

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse

12etw's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual content

emilianordland's review

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child death, Deadnaming, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia, Infertility, Racism, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Abandonment

courtneyandbooks's review

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Police brutality, Mass/school shootings

gaylien420's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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4.5 stars, because the characters were a bit confusing,there were too many for me to follow, but i liked that they were all connected somehow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Police brutality, Death of parent, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Slavery

urfavpunk's review

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Transphobia

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol

charlottesomewhere's review

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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A gorgeously written exploration of black womanhood and gender through the stories of 12 very different and fascinating characters. Worth all the hype. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Pregnancy

Minor: Deadnaming, Transphobia

renjamin's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read this book almost entirely in one day and I found the stories to be incredibly captivating. Evaristo has a way of drawing you into a book with so many characters that I was worried it would all feel lost and quite muddled but I couldn't have been more wrong.  My main critique of the book and the thing holding me back from giving this a five-star review is the way that it treats its trans characters. For a book called Girl, Woman, Other, I would've expected a much more nuanced perspective on trans issues. I felt like Morgans character development was rushed and I didn't appreciate the consistent use of the wrong pronouns for them even at points from their own perspective. I also really didn't like that so many of the queer women expressed terf like views that were barely challenged by the people around them even when they disagreed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage

Minor: Eating disorder, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings

theasbookworld's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 I struggled a lot to get into this, and through the first chapters I was close to giving up as I never seemed to get the hang of the story and the writing style. I am glad I pressed on and continued, because once I really got into this story I got so involved and though a lot about it even when not reading it.

It's very different from my typical reads, but I loved it. It was brilliantly written and now that I'm done I wish it was longer, I want more, I want to know how all the characters are doing etc. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition

2.5

challenging reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I am extremely conflicted on how to review this book. On the one hand, I can see logically that this was a good book.  The writing is interesting and it deals with a lot of heavy but important topics.  On the other hand, I really did not enjoy myself while reading it at all.

Part of this was because there was no plot to this story. It was more of a collection of character vignettes. If that's your thing, you should definitely read it.  I felt that this style really just made it feel like hundreds of pages of exposition.  I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did.

Another problem I had (I'm also conflicted saying this) was that I felt when this book showed some of the negative internal thoughts of characters (things that were racist, transphobic, bullying, hateful, etc) it never really expounded about what was wrong. And they weren't things that were very obviously wrong, they were more subtle. This left me with a feeling like some of these thoughts were the authors instead of just the characters.  Again, logically, I don't think the author feels that way, but it just left a bad feeling for me.

Overall, I think this is worth checking out, but it just wasn't my thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Transphobia