Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Good People by Hannah Kent

3 reviews

sarahjpoppy's review against another edition

The Good People is intense, powerful and moving. Once again, Kent carefully describes a time and place that is fraught with danger. Here blame, grief, ignorance and superstition all bind together and hover around the heads and hearts of a wretched community, living in cold, dank and joyless hovels and barely surviving. As I was pulled inexorably towards the inevitable, outcomes, I became increasingly world weary and uncomfortable. Hannah Kent’s writing is as lovely as ever, but is so very evocative that I became quite distressed and finally found myself  unwilling to pick it up again. I hope to return to this brilliant but awful story when I’m feeling more robust.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Death/murder due to harmful superstitious/folk beliefs, malicious gossip, one scene featuring public urination due to severe stress, one traumatic, graphic birth scene where the baby is stillborn

maddyspine's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

Kent takes inspiration from the real life case of Michael Leahy, and interweaves the stories of three very different women in 1820s Ireland. Kent is incredibly descriptive in her writing, painting a beautiful scenes. It is an incredibly slow burn of a read, quite dense and it takes until about a good two thirds of the book for the main action of the novel to start. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse