Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

63 reviews

im_just_vidu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Here I am grieving for the life that Lydia could never lived up to. Here I am loss of words because of how heart wrenching this was.
The first line of the book is "Lydia is dead. They don't know this yet" & you would think it's such an obvious thing, so you wouldn't cry over this book. Bold of me to assume the same cuz I did not expect THAT at all. I thought this would be end up being a murder mystery, but instead it just pulled all the heart strings of mine & made me feel so heartbroken. Maybe being relatable to the characters & their situations made things way worse. At the end, I didn't get the ending I wanted. I didn't get the answers for the questions I had. Most of the things I expected didn't end up happening. But that was the beautiful thing about this. Because life is like that. Life doesn't gives you the perfect ending & the closure to everything. Most of the time we just end up with bunch of questions we don't even know what to do with. I love that. It makes this story feel so close to the heart. I didn't cry yet but my heart feels so heavy so I might end up crying after finish writing this. Who knows? However read the trigger warnings & be prepared with a tissue box beforehand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Xenophobia, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent

Novel

vaekay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Racism, Abandonment, Child death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Rape, Outing, Murder, and Suicide

brynniek's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Infidelity, Grief, Racism, Death, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Child death, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

katyadaniela's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-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

5.0

I loved this book from beginning to end, Celeste Ng really knows how to put words on a page and paint a picture of a small town family with real struggles. Even if you can't personally relate to the characters, they are written in such a way that makes you love and hate them at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Suicide, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

page_karla's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Racism, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

waterwomanwinters's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide

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

4.0

This book is a huge reflection on family systems and their breakdowns. Concepts of racism, the golden child,  the scapegoat, and parent-child resentment are introduced from the perspectives of each character. The book has several time jumps  that give a jarring effects however may make the content challenging to follow for the reader. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

fancyjess_party's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Racial slurs, Vomit, Cultural appropriation, Death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abandonment, Colonisation, Racism, and Sexism

stirlitza's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, and Infidelity

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abandonment

duntothewood's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Racism, Grief, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse

Minor: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Outing, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse