Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

11 reviews

m47n's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Colonisation

sundayfever's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

Dark but good read. Collection of short stories strung together. Nice to read an indigenous story set here in Maine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Vomit, Child death, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Violence, Colonisation, Racism, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Animal cruelty

victoriarose12's review

challenging dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, and Domestic abuse

_sam_m's review

sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Vomit

jaygabler's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

Urgent, poignant, extraordinarily sad but pulsing with life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

carliethompsonwriting's review

challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Child death, Sexual violence, Racism, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Sexual harassment

readingwithkaitlyn's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Mental illness, Ableism, Drug use, Grief, Chronic illness, Racism, Death, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, and Body shaming

Moderate: Car accident and Infidelity

Minor: Child death and Rape

Neglect, fraud, MMIWG2S, drowning, intergenerational trauma, baby addicted to methodone, postpartum depression,

suzyreadsbooks's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

I don’t think I’ve ever read a short story collection that was as interconnected as Night of the Living Rez, with each story centering around the same Penobscot family, with the same narrator. We see many dark moments in their lives, but I also felt a lot of hope and love for these characters and their relationships as more of their stories are revealed.
I think this could be a good entry point to short stories for someone who prefers the character development of a novel. 

Gifted audio from Libro.fm - I enjoyed the narration and felt each of the characters’ voices were clear. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Alcoholism, Addiction, Dementia, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, and Racism

Minor: Blood and Sexual violence

sidneyreads_'s review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Colonisation, and Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Blood, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Child death, and Classism

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Dementia, Drug use, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia and Ableism