Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

186 reviews

theredheadbaker's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

Graphic: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Death of parent

lyssaloo92's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

shaughnp's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

lxndrsn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Racism, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Racism, Violence, Dementia, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

vdaltrey's review

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Racism, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Domestic abuse

that_naaat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

An important story probably very common of the 60s scoop - such sad material but a necessary read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

shivtuck's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Domestic abuse

mmecade's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, and Death of parent

haley313's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

This was a February 2025 Book Club read. I’d give it a solid 3. I enjoyed it for the most part. It needed a tighter  edit. When the story was focused on the central mystery, it was compelling and heart felt. I feel like it took too many tangents that pulled me out of the story and affected my ability to resonate with the characters.

I will say that my enjoyment of this book in general was severely hampered by the purely awful audiobook narration, particularly Norma’s. Joe’s sections were okay. Both narrators frequently mispronounced words which made me cringe and broke immersion. I’d strongly recommend reading this in paper or e-book format and avoiding the audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage and Kidnapping

kryten's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Domestic abuse and Fatphobia