Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

4 reviews

shawaazu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Infidelity, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Child death, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Death, Gun violence, and Cursing

houseofatreides's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

The Kitchen God’s wife is a bittersweet story grounded in reality. The story is a reflection of Winnie’s early years as she reflects it back to her daughter. Woven in as a recollection of past memories, the story often goes into tangents about people or places, and how it ties back to the main story. Winnie’s story is one of great pain and heartbreak, but of finding hope. Set in the backdrop of the early 20th century in China with the various warring factions, then the invasion of China by Imperial Japan, and then the  communist take over,  shows the enduring spirit of hope through troubled waters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, War, Sexual assault, Rape, Infidelity, Death, and Sexual violence

sofipitch's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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

4.75

This book was hard to get into at first. It begins with the daughter character who isn't close to her mom and she resents her and her chinese culture. And at first when the mom starts telling her story it seems overly negative too, that she's just going to tell you what a bad life she had. But really it's about hope, how despite everything that happened to her she kept going and took every opportunity and found some very kind people who helped her reclaim her life. I was very emotional about all the misunderstandings being mixed at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, War, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Child death, Grief, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion, Excrement, Gaslighting, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Dementia, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

jamesjoyc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Rape, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, War, Torture, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse