Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

3 reviews

addythebookbat's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

amberinpieces's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Grief, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Suicide

thebakerbookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Okay, I don’t know what I really expected with this book, but nothing that happened was what I expected. I think my main issue with it was that it was doing too much in one story so nothing got the right amount of attention it needed.

We get two first-person POVs, from Alexa and her therapist, Daniel. I would’ve liked it better if Daniel’s chapters were just gone...I never understood why his POV was included! To me, they didn’t add anything to the story, and he was kinda creepy anyway. Alexa was a much more interesting character and I would’ve rather just stayed in her head. I loved learning about her different personalities and seeing how they interacted with each other—that was the best part of this book.

The plot...was intense. This was a lot darker than I was expecting—be wary of the content warnings below. I’m not sure if it was all just for shock value or what, but a lot of it seemed unnecessary to me. Maybe it’s just not my kind of book.

Short chapters made for a quick read and I suppose it did entertain me...but I’m just left wondering what my takeaway from this book should be beyond an icky feeling.

(My initial take on this was three stars but I’ve decided to change it to two...)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Trafficking

Moderate: Grief