Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

9 reviews

ninamitu's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Rape

dkamada's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

that_robin's review against another edition

4.0

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really struggled with the narration in the book, but the stories of the individual characters and their choices were compelling for me. Lots of parallels to our current world; good food for thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Colonisation

immaghost's review against another edition

4.25

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Minor: Self harm

himpersonal's review

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was interesting - almost like a reverse Handmaid’s Tale. Some might even say a feminist’s Utopia. Except of course it can’t be, because it’s built by flawed humans. There are forces who want to resist, and plenty more who want to ignore what is wrong because it’s inconvenient to question what feels like a good deal, especially when they are the chosen ones. Some might even say it feels a bit like it could be a prophetic metaphor for our current situation in the US.

This book might be a call to action for the woke who need to be further woken. As for those whom I call asleep (as in not woke), this book might just be a bit of science fiction that could someday make a good movie - with the right director. (Let’s take the red pill people, please!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

coffeebean216's review against another edition

0.5

dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Vomit, Classism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Medical content, Abandonment

mandi_lea's review against another edition

4.5

dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

laughtrack17's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Transphobia, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Drug use

nukie19's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a really thought-provoking look at a near-future world and how the goals of creating a community without the patriarchy is a more complex problem than it originally appears.  Korn does a good job of really breaking down the simplistic view from the billionaire funding the project - an older, wealthy, cis-hetero, white female - about how to create this reality by just eliminating men from the picture.  Touching on topics such as the gender spectrum, power imbalances, trans-rights, bodily autonomy, and more, this book probably isn't for everyone who isn't ready for that kind of political statement along with their speculative/climate fiction.  It can be at times a little simple and obvious with the themes, but overall I think it would make a great book club read to open discussions on these topics.

Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Abandonment

Minor: Drug use, Medical content, Pregnancy, Alcohol