Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

44 reviews

strawberrymoocow's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I am literally Esther Greenwood.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

loghan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

I didn’t particularly find the book too remarkable but also couldn't put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

francoise's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

I enjoyed The Bell Jar because each relationship Esther had in the bell jar all reflected various themes that were relatable. I felt that her relationship with her mother was most significant although not talked about as often as her relationship with Buddy. Although quite loving, she never truly understood her own daughter and only wanted her to fit societal expectations. As the reader, I felt the detachment strongly and how realistic it was. Plath did so well in portraying challenges that we (women) face and her use of words in general string so well together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

book_spooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

So I really enjoyed this book. Was it hard to read? Yes. Very much so in parts. But did I underline something on almost every page? Also yes. Plath's writing is beautiful, and she was able to describe her deteriorating mental state so comprehensively that at times you find yourself almosther  agreeing with her irrational decisions. But definitely read the trigger warnings first, because I feel this could easily send someone into a spiral.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault and Toxic relationship

skyecoghlan's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia and Toxic relationship

sexyslutsyndrome's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Antisemitism, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

snartyhasgottheskills's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

. so- this book is incredibly relatable, sad and the emotional nature of the book makes you empathise with the main character, which sucks because sylvia plath uses racist remarks throughout and sometimes disregards the priveledges given to her/the main character due to disadvantages she faces within sexism, homophobia and ableism. The beginning of the novel is basically a recount of plath’s life and written in a lighter tone even when exploring dark themes, the rest of the novel however is written within an incredibly dark headspace and kind of glorifies suicide and other harmful ideas which may be harmful to some readers and isn’t really explained anywhere on blurbs or covers which isn’t needed but i think is necessary 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

literally all the tw tbh

tia_fox's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-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

4.25

Lovely piece written by the author, almost brought a tear to my eye with some of the things it related to.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

kaylee4321's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

hellothereforeitsalex's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit