Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

102 reviews

sbrnamthla's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Confinement, and Abandonment

Moderate: Torture and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment

kylasmv15's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Death, Torture, Emotional abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

laleh_eve's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Police brutality, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Islamophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Racism, Police brutality, Addiction, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Torture

datgirllani's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense 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? Yes

4.0

I read it in a day! I just couldn’t put this book down. I will admit part of that reason is because I saw on Tiktok that so many people are Warner end game but Adam treats her SO much better. So I know there has to be a reason why everyone likes him more, unfortunately you don’t find anything out in the first book so maybe in the second one🤞🏽. Besides that, the plot is easy to follow and keeps you engaged, wanting to know what will happen next. Where Juliette’s story will lead, My favorite character is Kenji, he is so hilarious. I recommend reading this book! “You never asked for anything from anyone…But no one ever gave you a chance.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood, Cursing, and Excrement

crypticspren's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

While I'm still not 100% on the strike-out writing, Mafi's writing is beyond exceptional. Her words drip with the beauty of poetry and she generates such an incredibly vivid atmosphere. Every moment of this book felt perfect. The characters were so deep and raw and brutally developed, and the overall plot was perfectly wrapped in an inexplicably intriguing world Lore that dried out my mouth (in a good way) every time it was dipped into a little more.

Needless to say, this book deserves no less than 5 stars and I will be reading the sequel immediately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Mental illness

yzer2468's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Cursing, Confinement, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Death, Violence, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Police brutality, Mental illness, and Blood

aubristar's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Blood, Grief, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, War, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Police brutality, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

one_more_chapter96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

Really interesting premise, love the dystopian future and limited abilities setup. The beginning really drew me in and I am excited to see what happens in the next book. I’ve seen spoilers online for elements of the series so I am very keen to understand how things develop from where we’ve been left in book 1! Cool writing style and well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Murder, Death, Abandonment, and Confinement

rosmariinireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Murder, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

abicaro17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

So far this series is really good! I think this first book is a lot of world building and character introductions. The middle of the book seems like the beginning. I am very glad there are more books to expand on Juliette and Warner. I so far don't trust Adam and love Kenji and Juliette. I think the world building works very well it just means the into is super slow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Body horror, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Blood, Genocide, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and War