Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

5 reviews

emzhay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Reading this book is like watching a train wreck with the most terrifyingly gorgeous cinematography. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia

queerbooklover03's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

3.5

A very interesting concept with some mostly well fleshed out characters and backstories, but the more time I spent in Dawit's head the less I liked him and thus, the sooner I wanted to finish the book. So I ended up pushing the last 10-20 percent of the novel as a quickly as possible to be done with it and done with Dawit. I found very well wrotten, but very frustrating and controlling, quite the opposite of amyone I would want to be with.
I did not like racism of "Night Song" and how they talked about her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Self harm, Child death, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Vomit, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

Minor: Fatphobia

micaela11's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Slavery

shannonsacoman's review

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Stalking