Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu

4 reviews

indeedithappens's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, and Physical abuse

lilaceous's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

characters - .5⭐️

illustrations - ⭐️

effective storytelling - .5⭐️

engaging to read - ⭐️

would recommend - 

beautiful and super engaging! i read it in a sitting and had to make myself slow down a bit because i was flipping through the action pages too fast. although it was a fun read, the sibling characters felt like tropes with few glimpses into something deeper. also, i found the justification for the horror sections to be lackluster and more like an excuse than an explanation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, and Gore

romantickowloon's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Emotionally unavailable mother but there is a reason for it. Basically it might be not a good idea to read if you are very sensitive to tiger mom but like I said, there is a mostly rational explanation for mother's behavior and the comic does not try to downplay the effects it has on the children now as grown ups. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Parents are in interspecies marriage , covid mention, refusal to wear mask, academic pressure in regarding to dropping out of medical school

marissasa's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This graphic novel was gorgeously, creepily illustrated and excellently, hilariously written. I loved all the witty remarks from the characters and especially the sibling banter between the two twins. The art style was very unique and stylized, and everything from the color palette to the line quality gave the story a sharpness and eerie feeling lurking beneath the recognizable and mundane city backdrop

I also loved the way that the notoriously demanding and cold Asian parenting style of the mother was paralleled with the issue of a non-human demon eater not knowing how to raise kids as humans and not rub off her "badness" onto them.

I can't wait for the rest of this trilogy to come out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Vomit, Sexual content, Self harm, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Gore, Pregnancy, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence