Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

185 reviews

sylviet's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Death, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

amerikanerin's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Vomit, and Physical abuse

lduff1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Alcoholism, Drug use, Death of parent, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

chantaal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Classism, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Drug use, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, Body shaming, and Racism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Ableism, Abortion, and Animal death

katkeyes's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

This book is brilliant and brilliantly written. In a micro sense, it's a first-person look at addiction. You root for Demon the whole way through and understand every step of the way how and why things play out for him as they do. It's a stigma-breaking, stigma-examining book. In a macro sense, it's a look at the opioid crisis and how it has played out in certain communities across the country in the US.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Trafficking, and Addiction

chloerom's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide and Animal death

kalynallis's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Miscarriage

Minor: Pregnancy

danidannoodle'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I feel obligated to give this a higher rating because of the quality of the writing, but quite frankly I went from listening at 1X to 1.2X to 1.5X finally to 1.8X speed to get it over with.
This was an extremely character driven novel where bad thing after bad thing after bad thing happens to the main character, and at a certain point it made me feel the way an Oscar bait movie does. Yeah, it's really technically good and heartbreaking, but just because it's sad doesn't mean it needs to win all of the awards or that I would call it 'enjoyable'. 
I guess what I am trying to say is it really just wasn't for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Addiction

meganriner's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Classism, Grief, Miscarriage, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Child abuse

Moderate: Terminal illness and Pedophilia

Minor: Pregnancy

cathycassady's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Worthy of its Pulitzer Prize!  Beautiful work and intense characters who you root for despite the odds and reality of life. A flagrant and justified condemnation of Big Pharma and how we act as those people “not like us” are disposable 😖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Death of parent, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Physical abuse