Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

80 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

Jesus H Christ. I genuinely don't understand how this and the first book were written by the same person. Like the first book was fine but THIS. Lordy. I adored this book. Warner is my favorite as resident lover and pyscho but, Kenji is a verryyy close second as probably one of the only people who doesn't handle Juliette with kid gloves. I am so excited for the next books for real. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, War, Classism, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Torture, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Misogyny

dreamers_aurora's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense fast-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

4.25

If you want something to occupy your mind for days, go for it...!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Bullying and Child abuse

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Child abuse, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Classism, Death, Kidnapping, and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Sexual content

lollyac01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, War, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, and Gun violence

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Confinement, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Death, Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

looloo_01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious 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

4.75

I would like to give more stars because the end was so good but the beginning was really boring (probably because of Adam but anyway)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child abuse

leoopard's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, War, Gun violence, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

romance_books_loveee's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Child abuse, and Violence

abbyycadabbyy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

3.5

     I liked the first book better. There were a lot of little things I think If it was done just a little different the book would have been way better.

     All my opinions on the characters still stand form the first book. I LOVE Warner and Kenji.  HATE Adam. And I think Juliette is too dramatic. Also I kinda feel like Castle is useless, he is just kinda there and doesn’t really add anything as far as the plot goes.

     I love political fantasy, especially if they have to do with war. Maybe it was because this book isn’t a fantasy, but I didn’t love it. 

     I feel like these are romance books with a subplot of dystopian. I don’t really feel like much of the politics or really anything is focused on more than the romance. It’s not a bad thing, just not really what I was expecting. 

      I think this book is a little too long for my liking. It was definitely a lot longer then it needed to be. The author could have taken 50-100 pages off and it still would have been good. 

     The war. It was like 3 chapters then it was over. The war should have been more elaborate, it’s a whole war for gods sake. You could have taken out some of the interactions with Adam or Castle, and talked more about the war. I don’t know I feel like the war was an afterthought where as the relationships with Juliette wasn’t. 

     Like I said If a lot of little things were done differently the book had potential to be a really good book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Abandonment and Child abuse

vickeyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

For the most part I liked this book more than the first book. 
I really liked the scenes between Warner and Juliette more. 
I also liked the new characters introduced particularly Brendan and Winston. The sisters or “the girls” are pretty good characters ig but didn’t stand out too much tbh other than being a plot device. I LOVE Kenji in this book glad we got to see him more 😍 
I loved seeing more Warner too 😍 this book made him one of my favorite characters.
Though here’s what I didn’t like.
I felt like Adam was too dramatic in this book like he’s just dumb and has no reason to act the way he does half the time 🤷‍♀️
Like he’s not at all understanding of why Juliette feels the way he feels just only cares about what he wants which annoys me sm. 
Juliette is also Dramatic tbh 🙄🙄🙄 it’s so annoying cuz we’re in her pov the whole book so it’s dumber when she is. 
 I found pretty much most of Castle’s scenes to be boring with a few exceptions 🤷‍♀️

I rly liked it when he told Kenji’s past cuz it’s Kenji but admittedly that scene was just super cliché tbh.

And ngl admittedly Warner’s father is scary but I don’t feel like the book made him all quite that scary yet besides  using Warner and Adam’s past, Warner’s mom, and Juliette getting shot at the end but Juliette is dumb sooo it wasn’t the most surprising thing in the world Yk 🤷‍♀️

 
I’m excited to read the next book still because I wanna see more Warner and Kenji but hopefully in a better state (if Yk Yk).
To be honest, the book was too long and I didn’t rly enjoy the location of the book 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Abandonment and Child abuse

Minor: Kidnapping and Sexual content