Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

12 reviews

monicajaylynn's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, and Gaslighting

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death and Physical abuse

omnisyncd's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Body horror, War, Child death, Death, Abandonment, Gore, Child abuse, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual content

linnea1801's review against another edition

dark 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

4.75

This book is sooo good!!!! It’s a story about overcoming abuse and trauma, it’s beautifully written and it’s gay so it’s a ten out of ten in my books. Also I just want to give Ranka a hug, she deserves it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Genocide, Hate crime, and Pandemic/Epidemic

immovabletype's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Child abuse, Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Bullying, and Classism

Minor: Medical content and Alcohol

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

This book was so much better than I could’ve imagined. I went into completely blind and fell in love! I am going to have a massive book hangover after. 

I am only left with one question? How is the Sunra line going to continue if both siblings are gay? I mean yeah adoption but that could be a lot of political unrest. 

This book in three words is Queer, Zombie, Betrayal. It has enemies, to friends, to lovers, to enemies, to lovers and just classic friends to lovers. 

The writing is so wonderful my only critique is it uses the phrase “bile rose to her throat” and others like that far too many times. Other than that it had so many fabulous quotes that just hit you to your core, my favorite being, “You useless lesbian.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Vomit, War, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Confinement, and Cursing

Minor: Cannibalism

theferret's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death, and War

Minor: Medical content, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, Torture, Alcohol, Animal death, and Bullying

oliverreeds's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

alright! lets get into the complicated mess of this book. when i first started it mmm. one day ago i had no idea abt the controversy until by chance i looked at the reviews and saw RACISM and ANTISEMITISM. i said hmm. that does not sound very good and look up what was happening but found very few examples online of anything so i turned to the comments section just to know what i was getting into. when reading abt the reverse racism i was a bit skeptical, but i saw someone explaining how, while in-world race isnt a social factor, the only bipoc characters are the same — the ruling class who are delightfully ignorant of whats happening in their city and have to be informed by an oppressed white woman. now i personally am not 100% this wasnt a misguided attempt at showing unjust government and how marginalized social groups get fucked over by the system but… why then were these two the like only bipoc characters? we couldnt have had an oppressed witch bipoc?? for some reason the answer is no. 

SPOILERS BELOW
now lets get onto the antisemitism which i consider the more blatant issue. so there is a character who is reptilian in nature — hidden actually as his reptilian self — who left his reptilian homeland because they were creating biological warfare inoculations against the lower class of witches… now. wow. thats already a lot to process. and to those of you who know things abt conspiracy theories, you know that they all basically end in antisemitism including the “secret reptilians are ruling the government” shabang. so. this subplot feels like a CRAZY blatant dog whistle to these conspiracy theories. now you might be saying well HE was a good character who changed for the better, and i would say yes. hes quite well-rounded but. the implication in this book is that he betrayed ALL of his people. that he is the ONLY one who realized what they were doing was wrong. which to me,,, again makes me think hmm. that seems a little coded. 

SPOILERS ENDED

now lets say this wasnt all on purpose. how should we react? well, first off we need to hold the author accountable. say hey, this is kinda fucked will you make a statement my guy? but MORE importantly we need to call out the publishing firm for a) not hiring sensitivity readers or b) not hiring very good sensitivity readers. 

aside from that crazy shit this book was a good debut. the characters were compelling, the plot was interesting, but the message was insanely heavy handed which was a little frustrating. 

anyway, rating zero stars for racist shit and antisemitic nonsense that could have easily been avoided

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

yellow_ylugbug's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, Gore, Grief, and Murder

pidgepodge's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Body horror, Blood, Animal death, Abandonment, Death of parent, Gore, Torture, War, Grief, Child death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty