Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

7 reviews

ellymc's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

olorin85's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Cancer, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Child death, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and Racism

scifi_rat's review

reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child abuse, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Ableism, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Death, and Infidelity

theasdertt's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty

flowerowl's review

emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

A hard book to complete for me. Maybe because I found it difficult to ever chaper change from character and setting, yet staying in the same sort of base. I did feel the emotions of the different people and that was well done. I found the ending unsatisfactory, but I guess that go's hand in hand with unsatisfied characters and there ways, emotions, and life's; and so it has something poetical. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, and Grief

talasterism's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

the beauty of the writing captivated me alright. it's visual - blue bleeding up to heaven; the bay snuck up to swallow her toes; the blue-lit black of nights, the afternoon was crisp on her skin; time at the edge of the sea; - and evoking just enough pleased sighs to keep going.
but overall, the book for me always, from the first chapter, was borderline uncomofrtable, walking the thin like of i dont wanna put this away and the implied / off-screen uncertainties make something unpleasant under my skin crawl. some chapters i hated, the one from the teacher's slice of life, nothing but itching discomfort. some i loved - the one with olya was my favourite, the realness of bitter happiness and the beauty of relishing in aloneness. (even if it all happened, olya wouldnt tell them how the colours changed here. she would share nothing. they would never find out they missed the most beautiful day of autumn, where olya, alone, had been in its very centre. how good olya would feel to keep this secret. how safe it was inside ehrself) with so many characters, i have expected a more satisfying tie-in with each other at the end of the story, and to a degree it did happen, but by far not as thrilling as desired. also a fun aspect were the chapters through the months. also the ending 

is surprisngly optimistic. i really did not excpect to have a resolution, OR a happy ending, but it was a pleasant surprise.

 that quick breath, promising to adore her / her body was cold with late-arrived fear; his mouth was hot / the desire that contninued to knot them together / the cold garbber her lungs in two fists / an ache that was native / sweet grit in her throat / in one minute she was lvoely, and in the next she was a ghost / she was a beast. this was her hallow; inisde her was white and smooth, a frozen landscape, solid bone; carrying their hearts in each other's chests; a little love, a little rage, a lot of ocean water / two or three hours, and after, an eternity- are some of the lines that could be straight up of a poem. and at good times, it what it felt like. a beautifully visual poem, a tragedy of fear, an ode to dwinlding hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Kidnapping, and Racism

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Cancer, and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death, Pedophilia, and Torture

sammisheps's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child abuse

Two children disappear and the story follows multiple women throughout two communities in the process of trying to find them

the children were kidnapped and held hostage for a lengthy period of time by an adult man, but are found alive. The story focuses not on the children but on the community response to their kidnapping