Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

38 reviews

anice's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

As always, Butler is challenging and questioning everything you might think about power, sex and community. Amazing in both its imagination and its wretchedness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Alcoholism

saltycoffee's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery

summerb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Incest

Moderate: Blood, Death, Murder, Slavery, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Infertility, Medical content, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Violence

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Child death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

ce_read's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Gore, Incest, Kidnapping, Slavery, Ableism, Genocide, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexism, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Torture, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

Minor: War

anomiques's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Rape, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

itsnicholaslashay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Rape, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Incest, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

fairyollie's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

what I love most about this book- despite it being Octavia Butler, of course- is that despite it being a prequel providing the backstory to the primary villain, it makes no attempt to redeem Doro. because she can't. at all! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Blood, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Cursing, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Stalking, Torture, Trafficking, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Drug use, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, and Drug abuse

becksusername's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Misogyny, Murder, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Grief, Pedophilia, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Incest, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

simareading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Self harm, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Incest, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Death, Deadnaming, Confinement, Colonisation, Child death, Blood, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, and Abandonment