Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

11 reviews

rebeccadiv's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you don't. And I got it, and really enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death, Addiction, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Grief

elderwoodreads's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is my second best read of 2023. While I don't share the character's main struggle of teen pregnancy there were times where it felt like the author pulled thoughts straight from my teenage mind. If you're a fan of "girl vs the void" stories this is definitely for you, if you liked Milkfed by Melissa Bromer this is for you. I definitely know it won't be everyone's cup of tea but it certainly is mine and I look forward to rereading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Grief, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Drug use, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Child abuse

mdwsn27's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Mental illness, Stalking, Ableism, Alcoholism, and Grief

Minor: Domestic abuse

mapleleaf_rag's review

emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Was not expecting it to be this good. Cried. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Stalking, Grief, and Domestic abuse

literarychingona's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Alcoholism

riri78's review

lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Gun violence

ashlislibrary's review

emotional reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child abuse

annabelle42688's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Thus is one of those good books that are hard to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Child abuse, Self harm, and Alcoholism

v1rgo's review

3.0

disappointing. i understand that this is a debut, but it was still really bad. will update with an actual review soon hopefully. on another note, idk how categories are determined on here but this book is very much gay 😭

edit: okay, naturally, i forgot to write a review and have forgotten a lot of this book. however, i do still remember some of the criticisms i had with it. to start off, i felt the writing style was quite dull. like, i didn't realize it before this book, but there very much is a Literary Fiction Writing Style that's in right now. it was probably super prevalent in this because it's a debut, but nevertheless, it ... sucked to read LMFAO. like, the style was.. it's like it was trying to be cavalier and blase, but you could tell exactly why each individual sentence was written. it made me roll my eyes a bit. on a similar note, none of the characters felt truly developed. there was a very clear logic behind each of their actions. it's like the author made a diagram of each and added bullet points about each of their characteristics and like, drew arrows connecting EVERY single plot point with a certain characteristic or trauma. like, the author wasn't using therapyspeak in the book itself, but i can imagine them being like okay, this character's grief has resulted in [THIS CHARACTERISTIC] and is stressing them out until they do [THIS THING]. like, i could literally picture the mind map the author must've used. it's a shame because i heard good things about this!!! but it was so, so, so disappointing. i don't think i'm going to read new releases for a while because if i read another book with this writing style anytime soon i think i'll actually cry

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Eating disorder

laurnevitt's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Alcoholism