Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

134 reviews

matcha_pages's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

Great story, I enjoyed seeing the characters evolve and women outsmart their situations. Wanda was my favorite heroine.

My biggest critique is while the women were single they were protrayed as intelligent and determined to survive, yet at the end Irina and Miryem stayed married with their captors. I know this is a fairy tale re-telling and the men changed for the better, but the romance felt so shallow. 

I had a good time listening to the audio book, but it was challenging recognizing when POVs changed. The narrator sublty changes her voice between the female characters so it's really easy to miss if you aren't fully paying attention. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Rape and Death

nofrigatelikeabook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child abuse

sustainably_lucia's review against another edition

I’m 75 pages in, and it’s dry and boring. I’ll give it the requisite 20% (100 pages) before giving up on it. It is not emotionally engaging at all and there is a lot of unnecessary mystery. I’ve had to figure out a lot of things from context which makes me feel like an outsider. Some simple world-building in the beginning would have been helpful rather than a dry backstory.

It switches between characters without warning which is confusing. I don’t feel like I know any of them nor do I have a reason to care about them. I feel sad for Wanda and I want her to be happy but that’s it. I don’t know if I like Myriam or not. 
I also think child abuse might be an automatic no-go for me if I see it in the content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

sshinesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

The best Novik novel yet! Incredible depth of character, showing the many shades of grey in female characters missing in so many other books.  Beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Xenophobia

annastorm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

redpanda_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism and Murder

diasg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Antisemitism, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

ink_and_wings's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Body horror, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Antisemitism, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty

bebobel's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Antisemitism and Physical abuse

sucralose's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

3.0

The men are kinda useless but hot I guess.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Animal cruelty