Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

444 reviews

lost_windsock's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

This book was absolutely seeping with hard, dark emotions. A lot of it was light and cheery, but the undertones of pain were on every page. I wept for Aled multiple times. I loved watching as Frances and Aled became friends, and encouraged each other to be who they are. Seeing Frances figure out what was important to her, and seeing her fight to make Aled see that he was important...just...what a great story. I was drawn in from the beginning, and I couldn't put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

brontosaurusbb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

3.75

I really liked this book. It was a great exploration of how school put pressure on kids to follow an academic parth (university and ext.) And how harmful that can be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Stalking

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

teslis's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

4.0

I didn’t think I would like this book so much, that because I didn’t like “solitaire” that much. But it was great! The main character Frances is a girl who studies allot to get in the her dream college! I did see myself in her, she wanted to do things but at the same time not wast away time! And later in the book she loosened up and that felt very important! Aled it a guy who she befriended and I really like him! Together they do allot of things and it made me happy! They have the best platonic friendships ever! This book made me both cry and laugh! Will probably read “Loveless” now after some day! It had a cool story! I recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse and Fire/Fire injury

hnagarne's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Stalking and Fire/Fire injury

charliesreadbooks's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I quite liked this book. The way it was written - being a story from the past told with little sentences like “if i could go back” or “that’s what i thought then” - made it feel very real. I really liked that way of writing, whereas i usually prefer first person stories. I also related to Frances quite a bit, with her being so self deprecating and all. I kinda hoped that would turn around by the end, but it ended just as she was taking control of her life back, so didn’t quite get to see her happy and self loving ending. 
Some things that happened in the book made me uncomfortable or annoyed, as most of it was supposed to, but even just people’s reactions to things grated me, but that’s just a personal thing i think. 
As for the main plot line, i did like how things were revealed slowly, kinda of like peeling back layers and finding out something new each layer. i find that a lot of murder mystery’s are written that way, and i absolutely love it, though i did already know all of the reveals because i have been following alice oseman for a while before i finally read this. 
all in all i really liked the book and the writing style and can’t wait to read more of alice’s books

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Animal death and Physical abuse

denwluv's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

5.0

so beautiful something younger me needed but older me still did as well 🫶🏼

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad 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? Yes

5.0

Oh. My. Goodness. I don't know where to start.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lyraandpan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

loved loved LOVED this book!!! i laughed, i cried, i felt so deeply at the end - ugh i need to lie down

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Homophobia

lucidish's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Animal death

bumblemee's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

This is my favourite book for a lot of reasons. A few of them include:
- the phrase "I'm platonically in love with you."
- having a friendship as the most important relationship in general
- the very relatable struggle of not knowing what to do with your life, what you want from it and feeling lost
- starting my love for fiction podcasts

... I will leave it at that because I still don't know how to put my love for this book into proper words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol