Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

10 reviews

sassyykassie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Torture, Gun violence, Misogyny, War, Gaslighting, and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexism and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence and Fire/Fire injury

rebecca_simard's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Very different from the first book, which follows our main duo traveling a strange world with very few other characters. This book follows their arrival at Haven and the events that transpire after. It discusses loyalty and power in political chaos and how often neither side in a conflict is really right. Todd and Viola are kept separate for most of the book, both operating in very different parts of the political chaos that book one began laying the groundwork for. The dual POV can be frustrating but leads to a super intense scene in the final few chapters. Surprisingly graphic and complex for a YA novel, much more so than the first book, but I think the first one was more fun and endeared me more to the characters. Either way, looking forward to picking up book 3 and seeing if it can tie together the mystery and fun of the first book with the grittyness and introspection of book 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Genocide and Torture

daringreader13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Murder, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Vomit, Slavery, Medical content, Excrement, War, Abandonment, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, and Death

margaret_s_library's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: War and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Emotional abuse

shaunaxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Minor: Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Rape

teri_b's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

It took me more than two years to read the second book of this trilogy. Sometimes things cannot be forced. And I am glad that I waited as this book is even more harrowing then the first one. 

It is one masterful example of how no one really wins when there is a war and that no one can escape the ethical questions and who we want or believe to be and who we come out to be in situations of extreme pressure and need.

The book comes with all possible trigger warnings and if anyone feels like they have had enough, then let it be, stop reading and read something enjoyable.

The one question that I found raising whilst reading this book is, if it is really necessary to depict evil as it is on these pages in all its gruesomeness and all its destructive power, or if this is just another means for the evil itself to perpetuate itself and be kept alive.

The rendition of the narrator of the audiobook was fantastic and if anyone has issues with the grammar of the written book I would highly recommend to check out the audiobook as there any spelling issues  drop away, even though, I think this is one of the few series that has as its main character someone who is illiterate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

ellainbooktopia's review against another edition

adventurous

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Death, Racism, Genocide, Misogyny, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

arlorees's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

oliverlang's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I found this book really quite difficult to read so it's taken me a lot longer to read than the first book. 

Big trigger warning for physical and emotional abuse, slavery, torture and genocide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

michelleleistadravelet's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide and Violence

Minor: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, and Misogyny