Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

25 reviews

babyleo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse

zoeelora's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Infidelity

simonwin347's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, and Toxic friendship

safety_pin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Honestly Holly Black is a brilliant writer and makes great connections between storylines. Also, there’s a ton of great quotes.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

sunflowersarepretty's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Slavery

karambit's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Bullying, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Slavery, Toxic friendship, and Murder

limitlessreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This bonus book is apart of my favourite trilogy...no shock that I loved it as much as the other books. The illustrations were beautiful!

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Moderate: Bullying, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

erovelo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, Bullying, and Addiction

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I honestly didn’t expect to like this as much as I did. It’s very short, and I flew through the audiobook in a few hours. I love when books are a little bit meta with themes of storytelling, and of course I loved seeing more of Jude and Cardan. It was refreshing to have Cardan as a narrator; since the Folk of the Air trilogy is all from Jude’s point of view, I had wanted something from Cardan’s point of view. Honestly, I kind of wish some of this story had been incorporated into the trilogy.

Happy ending meter (no specific spoilers, just the vibe of the ending): Happy! Which is to be expected, but it really was quite cute.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence