Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

18 reviews

liteartha's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Incest, Miscarriage, and Drug abuse

aseel_reads's review

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

not sure how i feel about this. the writing was very easy to read and made the whole reading experience quite easy, which is a huge plus, since the subject matter was quite hard. i thought the idea of the story really interesting and there were some interesting moments. the plot was completely wild and unpredictable. but i felt like the character was not well fleshed out, which made some of beliefs/actions just seem unrealistic/out of character/just random? i don't know how to explain it but i didn't really believe the character at times. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Blood, Drug use, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, and Violence

amberinbookland's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Violence, Blood, Slavery, Sexism, Pregnancy, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Death, Confinement, and Abandonment

spiderwitch's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Medical trauma, Incest, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Child abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Murder, Child death, and Mental illness

mariathelibrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Colonisation, Racism, Slavery, and Torture

Moderate: Incest

actualspinster's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual violence

linnkaren's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Slavery, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical content, Abortion, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Rape, Murder, and Incest

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

 📚 What a page turner! Right from the start I had to know what happened to Frannie every step of the way, even as things got increasingly dark.
📚 This book does feature a forbidden sapphic romance, but I appreciated that neither party had an existential crisis over it.
📚 This book is full of complex, complicated characters and it doesn't let anyone off the hook for the choices they made.
📚 It's a gothic novel not in the sense of the supernatural, but in that the truth of our racist history is grim and unspeakable.
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Content warnings: addiction, alcoholism, child abuse, child death, death, domestic abuse, drug abuse, emotional abuse, incest, homophobia,medical content, medical trauma, miscarriage, misogyny, physical abuse, racial slurs, racism, rape, sexism, slavery, sexual violence, suicide, torture, trafficking, and violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence