Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman

7 reviews

fizzy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Police brutality, Genocide, and Toxic relationship

nighttgarden's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

jiulia's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-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

3.0

A good book, I expected more about Chernobyl. I would highly recommend this book to young people in the phase of development as it has a lot of themes and topics.
If you are a teenage or over I wouldn’t necessarily say this book to you, but if you want a fast and emotional read with good writing and informations about the Soviet Union and the culture of some of it’s former states, then this is a book for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: War and Genocide

kxc319's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, War, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

kshertz's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This is a great YA book that is historical fiction addressing the Chernobyl disaster as well as the Jewish and Ukraine tensions during that time through that time period and through two young girls from both sides. This teaches empathy, resilience and courage. This story was truly inspirational and teaches so much through these girls and the story of a third girl traveling through World War Two as a Jewish girl as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Antisemitism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, War, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Toxic relationship

reading_something_else's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

What an incredible story about friendship and love.

I always hate reading about child abuse, but I'm relieved the book had a happy ending for Oksana.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Minor: Bullying and Toxic relationship

kelreads's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

Oh, I so wanted to like this book. I've never read a book about Chernobyl, and I was looking forward to this one. The story started off nicely. The characters were interesting and I was starting to like them. Then the book took a turn that I wasn't expecting. I felt it was a bit too much, I don't want to spoil it but I didn't like it.
The positive things about this one the subject, I want to look for more books about Chernobyl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Violence