Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

5 reviews

lucy_jan_smith's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Cursing

rylin_marie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Violence, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Cursing, Medical content, and Murder

winter2001's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Alcoholism

librarymouse's review against another edition

5.0

I came into this book understanding it to be a thriller. I finished it in tears. This book is a thriller with the most tender human aspects, and shows the sheer variety of reactions people can have to life threatening situations.
Red and her lack of trust in her own memory makes for very interesting narration.

Holly Jackson has a wonderfully immersion way of telling a story. I didn't want to put the book down.

I hated Oliver and I'm glad he's dead. He's so well written. If someone I love was dating someone like him, I'd do everything in my power to remove them from that situation, up to and including doing physical harm to him. The whole family deserved to be knocked down a peg, possibly with the exception of Maddie. I'm glad she's the only one of them to survive. The first read through, I thought the cop shot him, not Arthur's brother. The w iting does a great job capturing the confusion of the situation. Red running at the cop to keep another version of herself being made makes for fantastic full circle character development.

Red's healing moment as she's on the brink of death ending with "...but mom stayed with her, right here in her hand. At the end of all things, mom stayed and so did the stars." had tears rolling down my cheeks.

Having the woman who stood in to be a mom to Red be the person who killed her mom is somewhat expected, but the twist was very well done in this book.

Overall, this is a fantastic book with terrifyingly round characters, fun tropes, and fun twists on tropes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Car accident, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

meganreadsbook's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child abuse, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, Murder, Grief, and Death of parent