Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

7 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious sad tense 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

3.0

Rounding up to a three, but this book was actually very hard for me to rate. The story held my attention, and I liked it better than The Ghost Bride, but I was so deeply uncomfortable with the relationship between Ji Lin and Shin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, and Incest

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

A lovely story and murder mystery all wrapped up around a Folklore tale.

I found the characters loveable and was was really routing for some of them throughout the book.

I quite enjoyed jumping back and forward between the main characters perspectives. I did find the timeline a little hard to follow though so gave up on that part and just enjoyed the story.

I felt there were a couple of things never quite fully explained but I think this worked well with the fact this book had a strong link to a Folklore story that in itself has a lot of mystery wrapped around it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Murder, Blood, Slavery, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Infertility

bookycnidaria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Sexual assault, and Racism

el13's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Writing was excellent. The story unfolded in a really captivating way. It is a bit twisted, mysterious, and dark, with magical realism, reflective of the land of Malay and the sociopolitical environments at the time. But, I think it was a bit too dark for me. It did leave me with a lot of questions still, but I think it did so intentionally, as it was a mystical story. Finally, and most importantly, the love story was NOT IT FOR ME DAWG. It felt so wrong. I definitely felt the way Ji Lin's mother did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, Incest, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual violence, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, and Misogyny

turtlebrainlibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Incest

mantnam's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Incest

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

This book was well written with an intriguing plot and interesting characters. It lost me though because of the heavy incest subplot. I don't care if they're "technically not related cause they're step siblings" it's gross and ruined this book for me. The weak justification that her stepfather technically never adopted her is not okay. Every other aspect was well formed, and I will forever love Ren, but come on, there is no reason that needed to be part of this. Not to mention the stepbrother is possessive, aggressive, and borderline rapey. Fantastic writing, wish it was put to better use.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Medical content, and Violence

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