Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

18 reviews

faduma's review

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Domestic abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

lunep's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

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

2.0

It was gripping but the characters were flat, I didn't care for any of them, the whole magic thing came out of nowhere and felt weird (and hopefully it gets explained on the second book because it wasn't on this one), and the representation was done very poorly: Ella's "OCD" is nothing like real OCD, Rory, Nani and Yuki's sexualities felt very stereotypical, and Yuki being so cold and emotionless is a harmful aroace stereotype, far from the truth (even tho it can be explained by the fact that she was been brought up to be perfect, perfect can still show emotions), and while I don't think the author was trying to say trans people are beasts, making the only trans character The Beast/Adam from Beauty and the Beast was still a poor choice (because we see that the characters and their stories from the book aren't modern versions of their fairy-tale counterparts that follow exactly the same paths, like Micaeli, I think what the author wanted to do was make Svenja's transition represent Adam going back to his real form after being freed from the witch's curse, without being literal to the story and making it all "oh I found love and that's what made me strong enough to be my true self"). I'm debating between reading the second one (partly because I'm a scaredy cat and this made me sleep with my lights on lmao) and just finding the most spoilery review possible to find out what happens 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Chronic illness, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Transphobia, Vomit, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Deadnaming, and Mental illness

fallandfox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

Após a morte misteriosa de sua melhor amiga, Ella, Yuki e Rory viraram o assunto do momento em sua escola de elite, Grimrose Académie. A policia esta considerando a morte de Ariane como suicídio e o trio esta determinado para descobrir o que realmente aconteceu. Quando Nani Eszes a nova colega de quarto de Yuki e Rory chega uma serie de eventos começa a ocorrer e com isso elas descobrem que Ariane não foi a primeira garota a morrer de forma estranha em Grimrose e como contos de fadas e velhas maldições então envolvidas nisso.
Eu acabei pegando o ARC do segundo livro para ler e quando comecei estranhei a forma como a autora descrevia eventos como se fosse para eu ja ter conhecimento e entrei e descobri que estava na continuação infelizmente.
Acabei já entrando com a revelação de quem mandou a mensagem para a Ariane mas isso não atrapalhou minha leitura por ter o prazer de começar a conhecer de verdade as personagens e seus objetivos.
Fazia um tempo que eu procurava uma nova fantasia com contos de fadas e aventura no meio e esse livro foi um belo acerto.

Eu li esse livro por meio de audiobook, para poder terminar ele logo, e achei a dubladora incrível na caracterização das personagens. A autora do livro fez um ótimo trabalho de escrita e eu senti em um bom tempo uma conexão com personagens e o desenvolvimento da historia.

Todas as personagens foram incríveis para mim e os relacionamentos delas com os outros mas eu adorei principalmente a relação de amizade da Yuki com Ella e como elas agiam para proteger uma a outra.

A escola fica localizada na Suiça e é exclusiva para os mais ricos e poderosos atenderem. O cenário descrito da escola e de tirar o folego e me deu uma vibe Dark Academia quando era descrito o castelo por dentro e suas varias escadas (numero tão grande quanto de garotas mortas na historia dela).

Eu queria ter mais gente para poder falar sobre ele e as personagens, foi uma leitura tão incrível para mim e quando eu ouvi falar que vai ser lançado no Brasil ja comecei a me preparar para comprar e poder reler!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Infidelity

gabyspinktasticlibrary's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

kalihell_kalihell's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Chronic illness

Minor: Death of parent

catlong's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

2.5

Wasn’t a huge fan of the writing and it was poorly edited but i’m obsessed with the characters

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Murder

Minor: Deadnaming

jackiepreston's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

mpbookreviews's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Blood and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Violence, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

yvonne_cl's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Death of parent

ammie116's review

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Death, Gore, Chronic illness, and Murder