Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

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

10 reviews

kcliff67's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, and Toxic relationship

lightltup's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism, Body shaming, Grief, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Eating disorder, and War

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

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

literarypenguin's review against another edition

inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

 A beautiful collection of poetry and short stories, the self-love poems and the empowerment stories were very well written and some of the poems and stories really resonated with me. I love the author's use of fairytales and taking those tales and rewriting them to include the themes of mental illness, self-love, female empowerment, and taking one's life into your hands and achieving what you want for yourself. Some of these poems were heavy-handed at times but it still was a really good collection of poetry that will stick with me and I will recite them when I need a boost of empowerment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Minor: Toxic relationship

daniellekat's review

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

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

solenekeleroux's review

inspiring reflective

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder

ceecee9093's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Eating disorder