Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Sanningen kommer om natten by Mhairi McFarlane

41 reviews

baileysmiless's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Car accident, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

lucyduller's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

le3713's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.5

This felt like two separate books that didn’t fully connect. Though I could see some of the developments coming, it felt like the book was trying to do too many things and thus wasn’t realistic to me. There were some scenes I definitely enjoyed, but overall not a favorite.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Dementia, and Infidelity

Minor: Child abuse and Physical abuse

gm_vak's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

oddsoul's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

Death/Grief:

Eve loses her best friend due to a car accident. The accident is not on page or witnessed by Eve, but Eve has to go and identify the body and help arrange the funeral, and the grief is acutely on page.

Abuse:

The MMC experienced physical abuse as a child and tells the FMC (Eve) about it, but it isn’t on page.

Panic attacks:

The MMC experiences a panic attack on page, but it is not in his POV, so it is not a graphic depiction.

Infidelity:

10 years ago, one of the main characters cheated on his girlfriend while she was out of town.

cuddlewithbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Thank you to Harpercollins Canada and HCCFrenzy for sending me an early copy of the book. 

If this book isn't the epitome of love and loss. My heart is so big and my eyes are brimming with tears. This book felt real and hard and beautiful and I could not stop thinking about it when I had the heart to pick it up and read. 

It is funny and deep and sweet and beautiful. I don't know what else to say other than if you are looking for a book that will hurt you and heal you, pick this one up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Physical abuse

marinaf's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Emotional abuse

aqtbenz's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit, Drug use, and Bullying

now_booking's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

Fantastic, fabulous, sad, funny, healing, another home run by this author. This is only my second book by this author but I’m going to have to go and read her entire backlist now. From the moment, I started reading, I couldn’t put it down, and when I did, I was thinking about it. This author has the amazing knack for writing the most hilarious laugh out loud sentences on one page and then shattering your heart completely on the next. Just when I felt completely broken with the characters’ grief and pain, the author would come back with another perfectly weighted bit of humour to get me laughing again.

The premise is that Eve has a seemingly perfect best friend group of thirty-somethings she’s known since secondary school. But when tragedy strikes, it reveals that there are lots of secrets and resentments bubbling other and it’s possible love and friendship aren’t enough to keep the group together.

It’s hard to describe this novel when you’re trying to be as spoiler-free as possible. I have so many quotes saved from this novel- quotes I highlighted because they were astute, ones I saved because they were hilariously and brilliantly witty and funny, quotes I saved because they were healing and perfect in the way they described something that is difficult to talk about in grief or betrayal or pain or even love. The themes of friendship, loss, grief and family are dealt with really well in this book. I loved how the author built a mystery around truth and perception with the victimization of one of the characters. I also like that this was a story of healing, of forgiveness and reconciliation sometimes, but also of just moving forward. This book was absolutely gorgeous and took me on a rollercoaster for emotions. It’s not quite romance, nor is it entirely a rom-com, or chick lit- perhaps it can be likened most to women’s fiction. Whatever genre it is though, I highly highly highly recommend.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from William Morrow Books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Violence

gcorapi's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death

Minor: Physical abuse