Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

55 reviews

ambill's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Violence, Genocide, Child death, War, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, and Child abuse

ekclar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Child death

jstarshine16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Genocide, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, War, and Bullying

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Cursing, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Classism, Misogyny, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sabrinalefebvre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I listened to this on audiobook and really enjoyed the full cast but I can’t get past the casual misogyny and the ideals that the author holds.

I was also sometimes bored during my listening, I’m not a big fan of training scenes and this was full of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Child abuse, War, Child death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

cmccoy13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really really love this book, it’s definitely one of my favorites. But it’s low score is due to the anti-semitism, misogyny and so on. But otherwise, it’s a beautiful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, War, Ableism, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Torture

evenfall_'s review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and War

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Xenophobia

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Much better Science Fiction book than I've read before. I didn't enjoy the story, but the writing is phenomenal and the characters despicable, but since it is a criticism of war and government it works very well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

Moderate: Violence

mar's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexism, Antisemitism, and Homophobia

shieldbearer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Ender's Game is a classic for a reason. While one or two moments are cringy by today's standards, Ender's Game is definitely one of those novels that everyone should read at least once. Exploring such themes as culpability, communication and manipulation, Ender's Game really reads like it was plucked from the minds of its characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Bullying, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Bullying- happens very often in the text Child abuse- the premise of the entire book is Ender's emotional abuse at the hands of the government War- while combat itself isnt' described, it's a topic of frequent discussion Child death-

Bonzo and Stilson

both die over the course of the book. Violence- bully encounters and conflict erupt into violence a few times Genocide-

the entire Bugger race is wiped out, or nearly so

Xenophobia- alien Buggers are hated by humans racism/racial slurs- earlier editions of the novel have the N-slur and the K-slur, but it has been edited out of later editions. Confinement-

Ender is unable to leave Eros after winning the war

Animal cruelty/Animal death-

Peter takes to torturing and killing squirrels