Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

65 reviews

gingerwife's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, Gaslighting

scarlett_librarian's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use

alba_1994's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This had a great premise. I just felt the character design was very shallow which resulted in inconsistent actions and undeep relationships.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

mzquirk's review against another edition

4.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

bag_end_library's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

brielabrash's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

4.5

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 Raven my darling!!!!!! Jespyr my dear!!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

bookmarkyourthoughts's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Death of parent

amyteurhour's review against another edition

5.0

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I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but to be honest this cover made it seem a lot creepier than what I normally enjoy. I'm glad I did give this a try though, because I ended up loving it! I really enjoyed Gillig's writing style and how she developed the characters. I'm looking forward to reading the next book, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to just purchase instead of waiting on hold at the library because I definitely see myself revisiting the series again.

The narrator, Lisa Cordileone was good, but some of the stylistic choices she made weren't my cup of tea--namely actually laughing when the text said 'so and so laughed,' etc. But I thought overall the audiobook was good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Abandonment

emilycor's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

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I ate this book up in like three days! I thoroughly enjoyed the dark atmospheric prose and the fantasy itself is one of the novel’s strengths. I could have done without the spicy bits because they felt juvenile in a way that the rest of the novel isn’t 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse