Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

929 reviews

oliviacharlene's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Death, Torture, Violence, Addiction, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Rape, and Self harm

toochmarone's review against another edition

I read 500 pages of this, and am just tired of the torture. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Rape, Suicide, Trafficking, Murder, Alcoholism, Bullying, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Addiction, Gore, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

1957s's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Siento cosas muy diversas por este libro... Me gustó mucho la forma que escribe la autora y en sí el libro está bueno, pero hay un pequeño gran detalle: la fetichización de los abusos que recibió Jude :D 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment and Car accident

clangenskiold's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

In one word: heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Torture

emmarauchtcamel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

i don’t know what’s going on in hanya yanagihara’s mind but damn this woman made my heart shatter into a million pathetic little pieces and called it a day 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Biphobia, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Body horror, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Homophobia

parkerjm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Blood, Kidnapping, Rape, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Infertility, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Ableism, Blood, Addiction, and Alcohol

mccullah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Vomit, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Addiction, Torture, and Violence

amiahslibrary's review against another edition

I have a little over 200 pages left but I can't finish it. Maybe I'll come back to it one day when I'm in the right mental state but it's just not now lol    

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Torture, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship

aspencross's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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 abuse, Chronic illness, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Car accident, and Pedophilia

daniliff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.5

In good conscience, I can’t tell anyone to read this. It literally took every content warning and blew it out of the water (in all the categories literally). At times it was incredibly hard to read because it was sickeningly dark. 

That said, I couldn’t put this down and I do think it was spectacular. The imagery in my head was of taffy - she took lives and stretched them to their most extremes. By putting the characters through most impossibly perfect things that can happen and the most impossibly horrific things that can happen, you’re left with emotion so deep that I don’t think I’ve ever had it from a book before. I very frequently questioned what the hell is wrong with her to do some of this to characters and I sobbed. But I had to think that it had to be balanced with the impossibility of the extreme positives, too. 

I get why everyone warned me. And it’s LONG. But I’m glad I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Addiction, Car accident, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Rape, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Abandonment, Blood, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Self harm, Body shaming, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Grief