Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

44 reviews

natgabor's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Incest, and Domestic abuse

lilycarotherss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

hanniebeem's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

mselvis's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

Most depressing I've ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Grief, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Self harm, Car accident, Cancer, Violence, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Mental illness, Racism, Infertility, and Alcoholism

videosnyper's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Rape, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

Minor: Racial slurs, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

bunceyyy's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Rape, Sexual assault, and Blood

wifescullys's review against another edition

3.0

Wish I’d looked up what this was about first because I just wasn’t in the mood for this right now thought it’d focus more on her lesbianism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

bridrew's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abandonment, Incest, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual violence, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Rape, Stalking, Infidelity, Murder, Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Chronic illness

dhaydon95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Rape

katokaitlyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

Rating this book was hard because the text was difficult for me to read. I had to take long breaks and some days I could only venture to read 10-20 pages. But Allison crafts some of the most real characters ever constructed in literature in these pages. Allison tells the story of abuse in a visceral and unrelenting way—a way that causes you as a reader to flinch, to stutter, to fail to breathe, gasping. I read this in a dark time in my own life and I simultaneously regret this and appreciate the clarity this text gave me. It may be a new favorite book, though I’m not sure how one can return to it knowing what you know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Violence, and Child abuse