Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Попитай сърцето by Светла Лекарска, Amélie Nothomb, Amélie Nothomb

9 reviews

sof_wants2read's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Murder

yilliun's review against another edition

emotional fast-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

5.0

For such a short book, this hits hard. We explore the differences in how feminine relationships develop through the eyes of Diane (named for the Roman goddess of the hunt). Her mother’s ongoing bitterness towards her for “ruining” her life shifting into Diane’s desperate attempts to get her mother’s attention pulled at my heartstrings. It was a painfully accurate portrait of mother/ daughter relationships and the ways in which those dynamics continue to play out later in life.

The twist ending had me tearing up

twenty stab wounds for twenty years of being an uncaring and cruel mother 😭😭😭😭 insanely genius and a wonderful parallel to Diane’s own life

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent

kairhone's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

emily_bronte's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

holy shit, this book. this has got to be one of the best books i’ve ever read. the plot twist 3 pages from
the end caught me off guard. this book is so addicting that i didn’t put it down and read it one go. holy fuck. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

the friend gets killed by her own daughter, brutally ( it isn’t showed) the mother isn’t abusive in the physical way more mentally and emotionally

anczki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

tmtclife's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

"Klopf an dein Herz, denn dort liegt das Genie."
"Nur die Dummheit verlangt nach einem Abschluss"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

bookmaddie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.25

This was a really quick and incisive read. I'm a sucker for stories about women and their relationships, so Nothomb's chronicle of one woman's connections with other women in her life was right up my alley. We follow Diane from childhood to young adulthood and witness the seminal female relationships in her life—with her mother, a professor, and one of her closest childhood friends. Nothomb writes with honesty and detail—Diane felt exceptionally real throughout. While Nothomb pushes some extremes (a woman being so jealous of her child as to completely shun her, someone working almost non-stop and barely sleeping for months on end), it is all in service of exploring the depths of emotion, and how deep-seated misogyny can affect women and weave its way into our relationships. A really clever, well-done, and sympathetic read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

martinaib's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Fatphobia

demo's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death