Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

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22 reviews

emlibe's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Child abuse

lifesarosch's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

Stunning and devastating. The reveal about the son, as well as is hinted about the girl...what she is able to do with that little space. Wow 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault and Child death

so I read it as the girl was being sexually abused by her father, but that may not be a universal reading. It is obliquely referenced

torismazarine's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty and Pregnancy

oz2021's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Death

juliloops's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child death, and Child abuse

meshuganush's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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? No

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. It was a very short and fast read, and throughout it you get to see our main character open up and grow confident in herself and her worthiness of being loved. The author really captured the essence of the child, my favorite line in the book was probably "We go to the butcher's for rashers and sausages and a horseshoe of black pudding, to the chemists where she asks for Aunt Acid,.....", the line made me grin. The writing was beautiful and really captured the lilting Irish speech patterns well. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Emotional abuse

kirsten1999's review

emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death, Addiction, and Abandonment

joannalouise's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Child death

Minor: Child abuse

hannah_et1982's review

hopeful sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This is somehow the perfect glimpse into a longer untold story and left me completely satisfied while also knowing I could read 200 more pages if they were there.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse

clstrifes's review

adventurous dark hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Child abuse and Classism