Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

50 reviews

susanknights's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

oliviaclaire's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I will preface this review by warning you that this book is dark and fairly relentless. Nobody makes it out unscathed and I'd emphasise that that in itself is a gross understatement. At the same time this book is atmospheric and enchanting, it draws you in and makes you feel for these characters and their community. If you can bear the heartache this is a well told story about some of the harsh realities of island life and life more generally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use and Murder

Minor: Animal death

hyperbooktivity's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Hard to swallow moments, beautifully written, could not put this book down. I’m looking forward to Cherie’s next novels!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape

celestially_yours's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
I Purchased this book from Barnes and Noble doing their half off sale. I loved the cover and the synopsis caught my attention. The title of the book is based on a short fable that the grandmother tells the granddaughter in the beginning of the story. It is not the main focus.
 
Each character of this story suffers from some kind of tragedy and unhappiness. Told from various points of view, but mainly through one of the main characters Lala, who I think was just looking for safety and love.
 The writing in itself is a character in this book. The way she softly reels you in through paragraph after paragraph- then hits you with destruction, causing you to think you didn’t really read what you thought you did. I had to re-read a couple of times to make sure I was reading correctly. 
This book m made me tell out loud several times, but I couldn’t put it down. 
Worth the read if you are a reader that yells at books while reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion

All endings aren’t happy they just end

annabulkowski's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Self harm, Rape, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Incest, Infertility, Gun violence, Grief, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, and Confinement

battlecat's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Death of parent, Drug use, Gun violence, and Infertility

cmvoelkel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

4.5
I listened to the audio version of this book and couldn't be more grateful that I did.  The narration is really impeccable and so adds to the power of this very understated and poetic telling of an extremely gripping and devastating story.  This is truly excellent writing, the only thing I missed about listening to the audiobook was not being able to underline so many understatedly beautiful passages in this text.  The only thing which I didn't love about this story was the implausibility of the interconnectedness of all these stories, but that was a minor quibble about a truly excellent novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Child death

edie_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Physical abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Incest and Child abuse

ainslie1982's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

laumilne's review against another edition

It was a bookclub pick, and it was too violent and graphic for me. I kept reading even after I first wanted to stop because of wanting to finish it for book club and in the hope that there was some sort of redemption arc or that the bad guy gets his due, but it just got more and more graphic and awful. I definitely should have read the trigger warnings before starting.

First stopped reading for a few weeks at

Baby's death after Adan and Lala fight over her and he hurts her

, picked up again and read more

rape, violence and abuse

and I'm struggling to see how it can resolve in a way I'd want to finish.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, and Child death

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, and Child abuse