Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

242 reviews

not_that_person's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Alcohol

fiery_lady's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I see why people like this book but there's just too many dislikable characters for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence

nstevens0309's review against another edition

4.75

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse

thatsmyepiphany's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

lolosadcat's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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really enjoyed this, especially with the framing device of a nosy and catty housekeeper's impossibly perfect memory. it was very compelling to read about the trials of a bunch of fucked up people in the English countryside. i totally get why this was a heater in the 1800s.

the happy ending for the children feels earned and apt, and it's satisfying to see the cycle of abuse put to an end through compassion, despite Heathcliff's best efforts to perpetuate it.

  just goes to show that some men can't be fixed!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse

Minor: Rape

litteratur's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This one hurt while reading. You have sympathy with one character, turns out s/he's horrible. You have sympathy with another one, surprise! S/he starts abusing the first asshole. Can't stop thinking about it. 
Heathcliff is the worst. There's a difference between being a spoiled brat (all the women) and being a violent kidnapper. Don't "problematic king" him! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence

tia_x's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Read along with an audiobook so that it could distinguish all the different characters better, also, I went into the book with many descriptions from other readers to make it seem like a romance. It is anything but that!!! All the characters were bad people, this I can see was the intention by the author, and I in fact can sympathise with Heathcliff; despite this, the level of romanticisation of him online is quite disturbing and leads to suspects that they must not have properly read the book.Whilst the book was still enjoyable after the death of Catherine Earnshaw, I found it quite lacking to the first half of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racism

maiqz's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Classism

gachnar's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness

Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal cruelty

bookishbluejayle's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Incest