Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

10 reviews

onegalonelife27's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

5.0

 As the title suggests, the book contains retelling of fairytales. I do have to admit, it started out with some statistics that had me going back a bit. Like, where’s the poetry this is math! Yet that reveals the odds of you as a person existing which is actually pretty slim. Who know math could help with existentialism? I found myself gasping at some of the turns and found myself sympathetic to the characters I didn’t think I’d be, but not condoning their actions. This stories easily flow into one another.  

I regret that I didn’t curl up with this book for an afternoon with a good cup of tea, because that's what this book feels like. But I’m also glad I didn’t go to bed with this book since I think it would have had me sobbing if I read this at night after a long day.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Misogyny, and Mental illness

Minor: Child death, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

nimeneth's review

dark reflective fast-paced

2.5

The writing was good, I won't deny that. My problem is in the same area many other reviewers mentioned: the second half doesn't resonate, and it's very anti-men disguised as "feminism". This would have been more powerful for me if it had left some of that out and focused more on the healing and uplifting one another/themselves that women are trying to do. And I think that could still have been done with the fairytale elements woven through.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

readingwithkaitlyn's review

challenging hopeful fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Murder, Suicide, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Alcohol, Child abuse, Slavery, Mental illness, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death of parent, and Racism

Racial slur = repeated use of savage. Mention of eating disorder.

purplehulk713's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This book felt like someone softly whispered “Lumos” from within a room that had been dark too long. Then, there was not just light, but fireworks. In other words, magic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Child death, Body horror, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Grief, Blood, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Abandonment, Alcohol, Stalking, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Murder, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, and Death of parent

inwetiewele's review

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.0

Most of the poems & short stories in this book were hit or miss for me. The misses weren’t bad at all but some of them relied a little to heavily on cliches. The hits hit hard and took no prisoners.

“You must lift a sword
with reborn strength and take on
the demons in your ribcage.”

“What I am trying to say is,
I know now that becoming kind
is worth every single exhausting effort
and sometimes it takes a thousand years.”

“So now I love my tinderbox heart
so easy to light up,
all it takes is half a spark.
 
A woman’s anger can change the world,
I know mine can and this is not a gift
I will give away.
 
I am small and I am angry,
it is how I channel my energy
and I like me that way.”

“Call me gross
Call me stupid
Call me disgusting
 
None of those names
can ever hurt me again
I am a thousand treacherous things
 
I was not made
To be lovely for you
I was made to eat monsters for ME”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual harassment, and Self harm

All mentions of triggering content are brief & vague. Merely attempting to imply at a given characters history most of which you will already know as the characters are from famous fairytales.

alexa06's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Grief, and Physical abuse

rini's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abandonment and Suicide

elle_dee's review

inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

My Favorites

• Once Upon a Time (Part I and Part II)
• The Fable in Thermodynamics 
• The Miller’s Daughter
• Lessons in Surviving Long-term Abuse
• An Older and Wiser Little Mermaid Speaks
• Rapunzel’s Note Left for Mother Gothel
• The Modern-day Fairytale
• Difficult Damsels
• Charming
• Metamorphosis 
• Man Up, Hercules
• The Ogre
• For All Our Hidden Witches
• Kiss the Dread
• Four Spells to Keep Inside Your Mouth
• Happily Ever After

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

stormy_ocean_waters's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse

malloryfitz's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, and Suicide