Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

6 reviews

tieflingmom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Blood, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Death, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Gaslighting, Classism, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, War, and Gore

grets_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

The story's the long and fairly dry cis-het male centric I expected, but I could listen to Rosamund Pike's narration all day. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: War

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense 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: War, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Addiction, Physical abuse, and Murder

Minor: Blood

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

If you love epic fantasy like Lord of the Rings or The Sword of Shannara, you'll probably enjoy this book. It took about 400 pages for this book to start developing its own personality, or for the characters to stop being quite as flat. The girl never stopped being flat, though. Overall, not a bad book but it just didn't stand out to me.

📘The Gist 📘: Several young men and a young woman from a rural town follow the advice of a woman they're all inexplicably afraid of to leave their village after it is attacked by creatures of legend. They then travel for a long time trying to avoid notice. 

📒Representation📒: three female main characters (but they're all pretty flat)

💕 For readers looking for 💕: A hero's journey fantasy, an 800+ page book, books like Lord of the Rings and Sword of Shannara

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, War, Body horror, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Xenophobia, Physical abuse, and Confinement

crownoflaurel's review

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, and Bullying

randanopterix's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Vomit, Torture, Sexism, and Self harm