Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

5 reviews

elliott_the_clementine's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

An extremely odd book. Undoubtedly intriguing and very well-written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Genocide, Death, Sexism, War, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Child death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Vomit, and Blood

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

alexandragriffin's review against another edition

This was the second try for this book and I just can’t do it. 

I just can’t do the constant misogyny, abuse, and just depressing tone of this book. While I understand London in the 20s wasn’t a great place for women, I just couldn’t keep listening and hoping the main character would kill herself to reset her life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Abortion

shibaunited's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Abortion, Antisemitism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Misogyny, Gun violence, Genocide, Deportation, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Excrement, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, War, Violence, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Blood, and Animal death

uhtceara's review

Plot has no sense of urgency or particular sense of direction. Just a meandering collection of story points. It is entirely possible that this ends brilliantly, but it shouldn’t take more than 400 pages to accrue momentum

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Murder, Antisemitism, and Child abuse

alomie's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was beautiful. Honestly I loved it, the looping back over things the slow reveal is that this is a life lived multiple times. 

Each time the darkness comes she gets another go, and each time the consequences are good, and bad, and the same. 

I love how she learns from her past lives but never knows really that she has. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Abortion, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse