Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra by Ocean Vuong, Claudia Durastanti

169 reviews

mckennikal's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-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

Vulnerable and insightful! Author has such a unique attention to detail. Lovely read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Death, and Sexual content

josi1911's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Grief, Death, Racism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Cancer, War, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, and Blood

m_moon's review against another edition

Extremely beautiful, but emotionally difficult  to read. Very heavy. Sad to let this go unfinished, but has affected my my mood too much unfortunately. Would rate 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, War, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Miscarriage and Abortion

jaslynklein's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Death

kiinhi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

con nhớ mẹ không? I miss you more than I remember you.

i expected to read a story solely about little dog's relationship with his mom and his grandmother, but was kind of sad to find out that it wasnt the main focus of this book. though i still enjoyed it (the story is written in such beautiful prose), i wanted to read more about his familial relationships and ties to vietnam (i felt like a lot of parts that included his mom got glossed over a bit too often). regardless, there are parts that i still find myself tearing up to when i read it. ocean vuong writes with a sorrow so deep and eminent its hard to tear yourself away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Suicide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, War, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, and Death

readingthebacklist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is simultaneously raw and tender, tentative and aggressive that it dispossessed me of my emotional defense cloak and confronted my own convoluted feelings about my mother. The knotted ball of resentment, guilt and admiration…I’m still processing the scope of this beautiful, fragmentary novel that impossibly, feels like so much of it was written just for me. 

 

Voung touches on a breadth of issues (war, masculinity, queerness, trauma, the opioid epidemic), but near and dear to my lived experience are immigration, language, family relationships, and social class – all written unflinchingly, but also with grace and warmth. I LOVE THIS BOOK

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, War, Addiction, Emotional abuse, and Cancer

nicnevin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-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

5.0

Poetic and raw, it's honestly beyond words for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Vomit, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Xenophobia

jasminawithab's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

imo there was absolutely no need for that many explicit sex scenes and its the main reason I'm not rating it higher. the writing in the sex scenes honestly felt like a wattpad fanfic and it felt so out of place next to the rest of the books stunning poetic, flowery language.
the book is set in 3 parts; part one was the best and its the part i resonated with the most (i cried multiple times cause i did not expect to be seen like that). I think you could remove most, if not all, of part 2 and the book would not be any different. Part 3 was fine but it felt disjointed at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Colonisation, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

gizzylove'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I DNF'ed this book the first time I began to read it. It is a heavy and convoluted read that I found hard to get into at first. I picked it up again months later and though it was still a slow read, it was truly beautiful. Words can't express the heartache I felt reading this epistolary. Vuong's writing, while a bit confusing and complex at times, is otherworldly. His use of ongoing metaphors and symbols throughout the book are some of the best I've ever read. There are so many quotes that tug at my heartstrings, and so many lines that are poetry at its finest mastery. The story is a genuine and heartbreaking depiction of so many heavy topics such as being an immigrant, the generational trauma stemming from the Vietnam War, homophobia, sexuality, etc. Vuong explores these topics beautifully, with such great attention to language. I truly applaud his writing style

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, War, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Death

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

3.75

while the plot was good and the writing was lush and poetic, i did not realize there were such graphic depictions of sex and abuse. I do not think anyone really talks about this and it was a little startling. please check the trigger warnings!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail