Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

40 reviews

samugranjo's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense 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

4.5

The focus of this book is desire, this desire obtains different shapes but usually there's a pursue of power involved. The author wrote about humans relationship with desire incredibly.
The characters are lovable at times but with most of them you are gonna feel annoyed too, feel like they have went too far. You both understand them and want to stop them.
The way the author writes about gender is outstanding, I was surprised by how much I related to this book as a genderqueer person. There's also some representation in the ace spectrum that I think was done well considering how little space it had.
Overall really recommend this read, and have to end this review by praising the writing in this novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, War, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Slavery, Torture, Alcohol, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Genocide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Vomit

josiev_08's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-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: Violence, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and War

sonaea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Genocide, and Grief

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-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

War epics are not my cup of tea, but if they're yours you might enjoy this one! Set in ancient China and packed with destiny, epic battles, political intrigue, betrayal, the occasional ghost, and clashes between Chinese and Mongol powers, this book tells the epic story of a girl who didn't starve to death claiming a name and destiny that might not have been hers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, Dysphoria, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Gore, Torture, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Outing, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Grief, Homophobia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and War

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, and Violence

justamy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

Great book. Recommend read.

I find that the secondary protagonist of this story is more understandable. His goals are very clear, while the primary protagonists goals are sort of fuzzy. This might be on purpose and I don’t think it takes away from the book.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, War, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence, Homophobia, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Infidelity, and Slavery

yavin_iv's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Ableism, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Alcohol, Abandonment, Cursing, and Homophobia

Minor: Child death

v1rgo's review against another edition

i don't super kno how to rate this because i don't read like, epics very often but this was fun! the romance was a bit weak but it wasn't supposed to be the focus so whatever. i wish ma had more personality. very phallic gay descriptions associated w ooyang. very girlbossy. the head scene was kinda feminist. nice to see a book that doesn't use weird euphemisms for sex. a fun little time idk what to say.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

rowanasm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Racism, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, Animal cruelty, War, Alcohol, Outing, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Blood

snowydaze's review against another edition

challenging hopeful mysterious medium-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

3.0

The changing povs took a while to get into and I just couldn't get into it. The ending also felt rushed after the build up of the rest of the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Torture, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Medical content, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual content