Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

100 reviews

anhe's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Minor: Domestic abuse

linesiunderline's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

A sensitive exploration of loss and grief, with masterful prose. This is an immersive and incredibly moving slim novel. And that ending is perfection.

“Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

carlafiorenzo's review against another edition

challenging sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

such a good exploration of grief in many forms, from many perspectives. how something that requires love, patience and dedication can be taken so quickly, for no reason. loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

abbie_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infidelity

graceq22's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Pregnancy

gigimussolin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Death

azyef's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Animal death, and Colonisation

hanvshka's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

This book was beautifully tragic. It's about family, life, death, grief and so much more. 
It took me a bit to get used to the overall tone of the story, but once that happened, I fell in love with it. Parts of this story will stay with me for a long time, even after having put the book away.
While this is a story inspired by Shakespeare's life, he is not the focus of the story and the author makes it clear by never mentioning his name once, which I thought of as a pretty neat detail.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Domestic abuse

alrauna's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcoholism

bunnyreads2's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed it but it took me a while to really get into it and more importantly, to be able to follow which character was which. Granted it’s probably an effect from listening to the audiobook while doing house chores, but still, not having clear pauses between different POVs made it pretty blurry at times. But still, the history and literary nerd in me really enjoyed exploring this part of Shakespeare’s life through this fiction setting. And the feminist in me enjoyed the attention being centered not on Shakespeare himself but his wife, kids and extended family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Violence, Domestic abuse, and Sexism

Minor: Abandonment