Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

121 reviews

silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

bigpenis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Domestic abuse, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Cursing, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Death of parent, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Addiction, and Blood

pipkins973's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Torture

darklylit's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Torture

diana314's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

What is UP with this book?!? 😱🤯
I…. I should have read the trigger warnings beforehand, so I wouldn’t be surprised, that’s on me 😬😬
But… like… Neil is… he just needs to be protected, and the foxes are built different. That’s a compliment (I think).
The development that the relationship between Neil and the foxes,

specially with Andrew and Kevin

is insane, wild and I’m here for it. I guess you could call it slow burn, but not romantically, like, a found family slow burn, but VEEEERY slow lol
The ending is weird… like, the last chapter didn’t felt like a last chapter, the only thing it felt like an ending was the final quote (which, cute), but I strongly recommend having the second book at hand to start immediately after finishing this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Rape, and Suicide

emma_cw's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

charlotte_wolter's review against another edition

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? Yes

3.0

I think that I understand why people love these books so much. I think that the atmosphere that it creates can be really enjoyable at times. I understand that this a book series focusing on broken traumatized people. But I really didn’t see any character development from specific characters which really annoys me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug use, Drug abuse, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Medical content, Gore, Grief, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Addiction

Moderate: Kidnapping and Toxic relationship

luhhhhhhhhh's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, and Torture

janeesjournal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Also vorab: das Buch würde serious Trigger-Warnungen benötigen.

Ich hätte tatsächlich nicht gedacht, dass es so ernst und düster werden würde, aber es war auch unfassbar spannend. Die Geschichte kam einem gar nicht zu weit hergezogen vor, auch wenn es erstmal so klingt, wenn man versuchen würde zu erklären worum es geht. Es passt aber wirklich sehr gut und wirkt vor allem sehr real und echt.

Von Minute 1 an ist die Geschichte spannend und ich konnte das Buch kaum aus der Hand legen. Es gibt so viele Sachen, die man im Hinterkopf hat, auf deren Eskalation man wartet und vor denen man sich fürchtet. Der Protagonist Neil zieht einen komplett in seine Geschichte und ich war total invested in alles, was in seinem Leben vorgeht. 

Die Charaktere sind sehr verschieden, sehr divers und haben alle wirklich schwere Leben hinter sich und mit einer Menge Problemen zu kämpfen. 
Auch wenn ich mir bei keinem (außer Matt und Dan) wirklich 100% sicher bin, was ich von ihm halten soll, finde ich alle super interessant und die ganzen Dynamiken sind sehr gut ausgearbeitet und lassen einen oft vor Angst was als Nächstes passiert die Luft anhalten.

So gut wie alle Charaktere handeln sehr moralisch fragwürdig, haben eine Hass-Liebe zueinander, die auch der Leser entwickelt und verhalten sich teils unter aller Sau. Auch tragen sie alle sehr schwere Lasten und die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheiten mit sich.

Das Buch ist auf jeden Fall sehr character-driven, aber auch der Plot, der sich langsam entwickelt, ist spannend und komplex und hält viele Vermutungen und Eskalationen für die Zukunft parat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

afinalepilogue's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This was so shit...I bloody loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment