Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

6 reviews

thalia16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Child abuse, Violence, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

softiejace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Addiction

melurmom's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

It is so so so hard for me to not give this book above a four because I so desperately want to. I have been in love with the TRC universe since middle school (I'm a sophomore in college now) and I truly feel like I have grown into and up with these characters so no matter how this book ended I'm sure I would have had some kind of poor feeling about it. I say that because this review is in no way coming objectively or with no bias. The book felt scattered and like Maggie was looking for ways to make a big end to these characters but in the process created an idea too big with too short of execution. All of the characters had some sort of interesting development but I felt it came on a little too late and *spoiler* the ending although cute with the wedding and bringing all of the gangsey back for one last time felt lazy in that none of the characters felt like they had their original shape. Additionally the whole side plot with Matthew and Bryde and randomly having Matthew pop up again felt so unnecessary.  Ronans proposal to Adam was purely fan service for a happy ever after ending *spoiler*. I know Maggie likes to get  butthurt about opinions on the dreamer trilogy so let me say this one last time: no matter what the ending was I would have been upset in someway and I know that. But it felt rushed and unoriginal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Murder

cassellwrites's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

smithreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Kidnapping

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

Cannot begin to describe how incredible, how mind blowing, how satisfying… the metaphors of magic as depression, magic as chronic illness… 
IT WAS ALL VERY GOOD.
Audiobook read by Will Patton, excellent as always.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Gun violence, Death, Cursing, and Emotional abuse