Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

15 reviews

hanngigi's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Animal death, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Minor: Incest and Stalking

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Gore, Gun violence, Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Infidelity, and Sexual content

jaxatta's review against another edition

the dog died

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death

betsygrace's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, Colonisation, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexual content, and Slavery

marioosa517's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Animal death, Gaslighting, Racism, Medical content, Physical abuse, Blood, Classism, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual harassment, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content

Minor: Incest, Ableism, Cursing, Homophobia, and Infertility

katiecentabar's review against another edition

funny inspiring tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Incest and Abandonment

em8ly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical content, Murder, Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Colonisation, Classism, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

ekmook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism

freetobme's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Moves along. Didn’t find a lot of things to ponder or that I wanted to write down. 

Didn’t seem consistent with Fred’s character or prior statements that he and Alice didn’t wait until they were married, especially considering the era. 

Parts were pretty predictable. Like the annulment.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, and Sexual content

bel017's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I loved the characters: such strong, amazing, but realistically drawn women.
The setting too, was so well rendered. What an awful time and place. I'm sure the beauty of the place was supposed to shine through, but the dirt and poverty and hardship, and knowing those kinds of things really happened there and still happen all over the world, and that we all benefit from the misery of others, was tough.

Several times I had to skip a page or two to avoid traumatising content

a woman being beaten, a dog being killed

But reading about the friendship and the women's determination was wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Racism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry