Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Mädchen, Frau etc. by Bernardine Evaristo

70 reviews

lucille_c's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Transphobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Dysphoria

Minor: Cancer, Slavery, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, War

emily_galloway's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was incredible. I love the authors writing style, read almost like poetry at points. I was hooked and loved how each story had some link to another, intertwining these women in small ways. 

This story is so smart. Incredible. 

I cried a few times throughout and would recommend reading trigger warnings however. It's pretty intense in parts. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Classism

dlsmk's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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BIG TRIGGER WARNING FOR ON PAGE R*PE. TWICE. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

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this book made me laugh, cry, want to punch my fist through a wall, etc. incredibly written and full of pure human connectedness, definitely a journey and not always a fun one but worth the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

tatjanasbooks's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Abandonment

catherineallsop's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

poenaestante's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark emotional funny slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Shoutout to the critic that shaded this play Misty by Arinze Kene by asking, "are tales of Black trauma catnip for paying audiences...riddled with white guilt?". I was looking for just the right words to explain why I hated Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. There are other reasons, but this really captures the main one so beautifully. The book was also too long with too many characters.  I just simply stopped  caring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Classism

blubonby's review against another edition

4.0

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I didn’t expect to love this as much as i did. I found a lot of the characters were unlikable in different ways but i enjoyed it, sometimes i wanted to scream at certain characters though (looking at u penelope and shirley), they all felt like real people to me so even when I didn’t like the character I still enjoyed reading. I thought it was a well done exploration of race, class, age and gender and the different trials of adulthood. 
I heard about the writing in a review I seen and I was worried about it not having punctuation but I found that to not really be an issue, I felt like it made the stories flow and I kept wanting to read on. Overall I really enjoyed this book and I wish I read it sooner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Transphobia

Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Dysphoria

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent

zara89's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Cancer, Drug use

camoo3032's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This is a collection of short stories about black women in England. The author covers a lot of topics including feminism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and domestic abuse. The book's format is a clever way of exploring these topics and I really enjoyed how it explored the change in society's acceptance of each of these issues over time. I also enjoyed how the grammatic style of the book allowed for more poetic moments.

There are a lot of characters so the book can feel like a bit of whirlwind, particularly in the first chapter, and some of the topics covered could've been discussed in more depth. Regardless, I still found this book very eye opening

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism