Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

37 reviews

dragonwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This story was powerful but miserable. It’s not something I can casually recommend because what little light and hope there was was always squashed. Though I found Solange sympathetic, acknowledging that she was in a rough situation I could NEVER imagine facing, I can’t say she’s someone I admire or even like. She killed too many of her own people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, War, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Blood, Classism, Toxic friendship, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, and War

bookhookedheather's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Grief, Death, Gore, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Murder, and Rape

All these are in the context of colonization

mikaelaandherbooks's review

I do feel like an outlier on this, but I could not stick with it. I appreciate the message the author is looking to get across but it was too trauma-packed for me and the pacing couldn’t keep me in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death, War, and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault

bookishmikay's review

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Classism

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

daja's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Child death, Gore, Murder, Bullying, Colonisation, and Death

kiwi_00's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Gore, Slavery, and War

librarybookscene's review

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Violence, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Self harm, Colonisation, Blood, and Classism

fictionaladventures's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

This was not at all what I expected, and at first that threw me off, but I did get more into it as I read. I was expecting a high fantasy, and instead this was a fantasy set in a world very like our own, with guns and airplanes and stuff, and it was way more military-based than I expected. It’s inspired by real-life horrors endured by child soldiers, so it can be incredibly hard to read. It’s definitely not one you read for enjoyment, but it was powerful and brutal and made me furious that anything like this could possibly happen in our world. The stakes were high and things always got worse than I thought they possibly could. I’d recommend this to fans of Children of Blood and Bone and The Gilded Ones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Child abuse, War, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual assault

clairew97's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, War, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Child death, Blood, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, and Genocide