Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

37 reviews

afranke2016's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

The book was great. The writing can be difficult to read at times. The plot wasn't my cup of tea but I see why people like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Death, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Rape, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Infidelity, Incest, Homophobia, Grief, and Child abuse

amayalo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Cancer, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Violence

nreyno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Sexual violence, Suicide, Vomit, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Rape, and Terminal illness

leilorenzo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

4.75

This is the most heartbreaking book I've ever read.
It is also necessary.
It's difficult to call it beautiful when it took so long to get through given the dmany breaks needed scattered throughout in order to... You know, still feel ok.
The narration is from the girl's perspective, some kind of "stream of thought", except it is full of breaking points, repetitions and quite nonsensical, so the girl's stream of thought is something else entirely, and it reflects, I believe, how broken she feels.
It is a trigger warning in itself, so be mindful of that. Very graphic many times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Sexual harassment, Child death, Violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Rape, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Suicide

li22ie's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death, Pedophilia, and Rape

oliash01's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Addiction

Minor: Death

juliette_d_03's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-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

4.75

You will either love this book or hate it, but it will leave an impact on you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Cancer

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ada_km's review

challenging dark emotional tense

4.75

The writing style was very interesting, unlike anything I have read before, but so clever. So raw and real, gut-wrenching, disgusting, cold, terrible - I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Cancer, Incest, Physical abuse, and Suicide

foolygirl's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Rape, Abandonment, Child abuse, Incest, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, Cancer, Bullying, and Death

paigereitz's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a hard, hard read. The style was intentionally fragmented, like stream of conscious in the girl's head with limited punctuation or clarity of who is saying what. It was challenging material, and a challenging style. But it is unique. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Incest