Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

78 reviews

whitebabysbreath's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

emitori's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion and Ableism

daisyyy07's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

hammy_down's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.0

This book is a solid four. I do recommend it, but it isn’t one of my favorites. The book focuses on women written by a man. It is a little hard to connect to that. 
It is definitely heartbreaking and touching. You can feel it all. Great book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Antisemitism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Self harm, Rape, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

coco_5's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

wow, i don’t even know how to describe how amazing this work of literature is. it is a devastatingly beautiful story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War, Sexual violence, Sexism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, and Abortion

elyssajoh's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

mollyanne624's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, War, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Gore, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Bullying

strange's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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

I... do not even know how to put words to this book. Mariam. Laila. These two women will live in my heart forever, and I am amazed at how they came to life in 400 short pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and War

Moderate: Blood and Abortion

Minor: Abandonment, Excrement, and Gun violence

s3lin's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Death, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Pedophilia, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

margardenlady's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Wow. This is a hard reality to see so vividly.  I can only imagine what it is like to live it.  Hosseini has written a compelling story of women in his native Afghanistan.  Mariam is a bastard daughter of a wealthy man who already has 3 wives.  Laila is the daughter of a teacher.  Both stories are told from childhood on and the parallels from a shared culture are outweighed by the huge differences in opportunity afforded by having educated parents who cherish you. Nobody is protected from the suffering of war, however.  Both women end up wives to the same man and together they forge a friendship that permeates the novel with love and hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Abandonment