Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Bleeding by Johana Gustawsson

5 reviews

junglejelly's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A short but great book. While I adored the writing, I found the chapters too short for my preference.

3 dark tales of women told in the themes of motherhood, friendship, womanhood and mental health. Each of which ending in a thought provoking way.

A must read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Infidelity, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Infertility, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Car accident

ysabear's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It's giving Hallmark crime movie. Characters liked to name drop obscure historic references almost in an uncanny valley way. Slow to start but ramps up during the second half. I also read this for book club and thought it was quite an obscure pick. The audiobook narration is top-notch though, performed by three different actresses for the three main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pedophilia, Abortion, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying

Sapphic witches across generations do blood rituals to get revenge or get some sort of freedom from patriarchy

errie's review

dark mysterious

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Violence, and Blood

nanc_282's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed the premise of the story, three women in different times facing interconnecting challenges of bullying and manipulation. It’s a difficult story to review without revealing spoilers. However, it didn’t quite deliver for me in the end. The twists were not entirely believable or satisfying though the central murder plot was well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Forced institutionalization, Child death, and Bullying

Moderate: Abortion, Religious bigotry, and Suicide

booking_along's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

this book! 
full of twists and turns and heart racing moments! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Bullying

Moderate: Abortion, Religious bigotry, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Vomit, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident