Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

54 reviews

aliceloyallaleon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Stalking, Antisemitism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Rape, War, Biphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Genocide, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Self harm

trippalli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

It's a challenging book full of awful things happening on the Internet and the witness stress of those paid to review flagged posts and the hardships of that job, their coping.... Their fallout of beliefs from flat Earth to denying the Holocaust, the tiers of what most need taken down and what isn't is hard, the hopefully things they see, some described, is really hard to hear. Especially a young girl cutting her face before killing herself.. And how they take the cutting post down and find out about her suicide later because they can't stop thinking about the girl and remember her real name and investigate. Along in the story is the narrator trying to have a relationship with her girlfriend that goes through it's own hardships in parallel to the harshness of this job both women and their friends work at.


It's well written but full of so many trigger flags, most of not all of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Child death, Mental illness, Self harm, Body shaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Suicide

maryfranvs's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, War, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Antisemitism, Eating disorder, Violence, Drug use, Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Death, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Homophobia, and Murder

biblionam's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

The concept was so interesting. That was what made the book redeemable for me a bit. I understand that the author was trying to portray the harmful effects of such a job. However, this was not done well. I found it terribly hard to care about any of the characters because I hardly felt like I knew who any of them were. They weren’t flushed out well (to be fair though, this was a very short book). Some pieces felt unnecessarily convoluted and the ending was just… what? It wasn’t poetic or hard hitting, even with some reflection.. It just felt like a chunk of the book was missing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Cursing, Gore, Hate crime, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

breanneporter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

A very short, strange book. It’s told from the perspective of a late-twenties lesbian working as a content moderator for an unnamed media conglomerate (such as Meta), and mostly details the rise and fall of her relationship with one of her coworkers. I liked the premise and the writing style (second person - the whole book is written as a response to the lawyer representing her former coworkers in a suit against the company for hazardous working conditions) quite a lot, and was riveted / quick to finish after I had started it. But the open ending…. So abrupt and so strange. I don’t hate it (

I do love an unreliable narrator and this is one of the most extreme examples I’ve read of revealing the unreliability of the narrator, who may have SA-ed her ex gf??  

) but I don’t love it either. I have a lot of questions. I think this idea could have been fleshed out into a longer novel. I’m not sure I would recommend due to the trigger warnings and unsatisfying ending, but I’m glad I read it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Torture, Sexual assault, Violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide

stareaten's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.25

the thing about this is, this was advertised to me as a fucked up horror, so i spent a good portion of this book waiting for something vaguely paranormal to happen. but as it turns out, it is an exploration of the effect which longer exposure to virtual violence might have on our psyche as well as a short look into unhealthy relationships. so I definitely was not prepared for this type of story and for me it was just depressive, i feel like some depictions of violence were unnecessary and thrown in for shock value, and the ending kind of felt abrupt. i usually love it when stories don't spell out everything for us and make us connect some things on our own, but this one felt like the whole fuss at the beginning was too much and the lawsuit was actually not connected to what the protagonist did. that being said, it is apparently based on real things that happened in similar work places and i don't want to go into spoilers so i just want to say if you want a story about how bleak people can get when exposed to terrible environment, this is a good meditative piece.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Racism, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, and Antisemitism

danithezombie's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Violence, Toxic friendship, Antisemitism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Gore

moreadsnrambles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Blood, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

maiaew's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

2.0

Interesting premise but the premise got a bit lost and replaced with analysing a toxic relationship. Also really abrupt ending. Not a bad read as less than 150 pages, but not really the book I expected from its blurb

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Body horror

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Excrement, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Torture, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Addiction, Car accident, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Outing, Rape, Sexism, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Transphobia, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Dysphoria, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Suicide attempt