Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

712 reviews

arlobenjamin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia

komiification's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

I won't lie, but I tend to get easily distracted when listening to audio books, so there were points where I happened to tune out what was happening. That's entirely my own fault as I get used to reading in audio form, and not a fault of the book at all. I'm fact, this book is written like the most beautiful poetry, even when describing some of the most tragic and difficult events imaginable. It is not an easy book to get through, and I often thought about stopping because it really was just hard to listen to some of the things Little Dog and his family had to go through. But not all books should exist to be blatant consumer-centric entertainment, so I would urge people to pick this up, despite it not being an 'easy read'. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Alcohol

crys_tel's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This book evoked a hole host of emotions in me, it was not easy to read but much of it was inspiring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape and War

maestro_cerrotorcido's review against another edition

challenging sad fast-paced

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

3.0

I can see why this would be a beautiful book for people. I loved it at the beginning, and then, at some point, it became too depressing at a time it did not feel good for me to be sad. This book has also possibly made me realize I don't like books with time jumps; you get invested in one part of the story and then you are whipped away. Also the combination of the time changes with the overly artsy writing sometimes made it difficult to understand what was happening exactly. I am glad this book exists though and that so many people will see their story in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Mental illness, Grief, and Classism

sugarbutterflour's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Drug use, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and War

_david_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

It is a beautiful book about the complexity of loving someone very broken. 

I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 since the poetic tone and metaphors sometimes prevented me from losing myself in the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, Sexism, and War

Important side characters are victims of the Vietnam war suffering from PTSS Internal homophobia by side character

fpcat99's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

tom_____'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Domestic abuse and War

ifreyley's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

Beautifully written, an artistic depiction of a life (or rather, multiple lives, or rather, a parent–child relationship) that feels almost like a painting. Dark subject matter and harrowing world history are littered with moments of beauty and hope, and above all the focus is love, however complicated that can be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Excrement, Grief, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Grief, and Pregnancy

veelaughtland's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Excrement, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis