Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

38 reviews

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder

maisiemoo's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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

3.0

It took me so long to get into this but I think thats because I don’t read a lot of fantasy. By the last third of the story I was really engaged. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

btorsi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

dnf in 2020. recommitted and finished in april 2022. a ton of fun and kept my interest piqued the entire way through. the last 10% was double the fun of the rest combined, but i don't think it would be that fun without everything the beginning set up. if i hadn't read it all in a few days, i could definitely see myself getting stuck -- the whole selling point is the poison girl and

she loses the poison in the first half

. but sticking it out was the right choice because it is a wonderful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, and Abandonment

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ Bashardoust writes about grief, loneliness and loss SO WELL! I really was taken aback by how artfully she utilized the characters to create conflict centered around these themes.

⁕ Soraya’s development as the main character is solid. I thought it was particularly clever how Bashardoust juxtaposed two of the minor characters to show the alternative “paths” Soraya could take, and used her understanding of them to help her grapple with her inner conflict.

⁕ Some of the plot developments felt a little too convenient, a little too easy. As terrible as it sounds, I wanted the characters to suffer just a little more before being saved. It didn’t feel as gratifying as I would have liked when they were.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Torture

hyliansee's review

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Torture, Blood, and Cannibalism

juliaseculture's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

What a surprise, i didn't except to like this book so much. The rythme/pace of the writing was amazing. It was just what i needed ! A hint of darkness that i was looking for, a subtle sprinkle of queerness, a tons of research behind the folklore of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

anna978's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Minor: Torture

corabookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

Well-written and interesting story, it was just very different from what I was anticipating and didn’t really grab me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

greymalkin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A wonderful mashup of Persian legends and mythology with elements of Rapunzel and Beauty and the Beast European fairytales.  I enjoyed the complexity of the characters and the way that you knew each thread would come together and yet it still felt earned.  The imagery was very strong and the voices of the various characters were easy to tell apart just through their dialog cadence and words choice.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Murder

strange_little_ranger's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Kidnapping