Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

100 reviews

saskiahill's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Mental illness, Self harm, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

itstheconnorsbookclub's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Murder, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Slavery, and Blood

its_erin's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

You won't want for descriptive imagery in this novel, as chapters are dedicated to the detailed depictions of "the marsh girl's" world. Meandering like a river, this book slowly weaves together the past and present from different perspectives to ultimately produce a story of love, loss, and the futility of going against the forces of nature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Death of parent, and War

magda_ocaranza's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

I read it in one sitting, it left me wanting more

i wanted a happy ending and it was but at the same time it felt like she deserved more like so much pain shoul  be balanced with glorious amounts of happiness

, ended up with a connection to kya and a need to defend her relating to her lack of trust and empathizing with her need for other people but at the same time her fear of attachment and love, it's a deeply emotional book and it strucks you, leaves you with the emotions raw and deep 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

em_gauts's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Bullying, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, and Car accident

brynhayes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

pabi's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

3.5

 

Took me a while to get into it but it is such a well-written novel-can’t believe it’s a debut. Kya’s [the protagonist] life in the marsh brought vivid and captivating descriptions. She However drove me crazy with her predictable romantic advances which ultimately bore me to a degree where I was rolling my eyes enough, I feared they would remain at the back of my head but I digress. The random A.H. poetry exerts were a delight and ultimately Kya surprised me and I was given a deliciously satisfactory ending -licking my fingers as we speak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Infertility

heathermarie08's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Death of parent

cdt96's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-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? No

4.0

Fantastic book, the only issue is how the black characters have been portrayed as stereotypical archetypes. This added with the controversy surrounding the author makes it lose some score for me. Ultimately though, the book is good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Racism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

stevia333k's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.25

So it should first be said that evolutionary psychology "evopsych" was developed as enslavement propaganda/apologia as well as (war) rape culture apologia. Like these discussions of instinct & connection are important for unpacking some political implications. I haven't done that yet. This is important because this book had a lot of listen to nature & communing with nature vibes so to know there is definitely discourses for that even if the histiographies are racist bourgeois patriarchal is helpful. Like that's been something I've been trying to learn by recently reading about famines. Point being, if this is going to be some people's introduction to listening to nature then I'll need to figure out where the starting point is at.

This book gave me Katniss Everdeen vibes, and that was definitely a thing I would think about as I read this book. I liked the setting a lot, communing with the other life forms etc. Like doing prayers at parks instead of schools is more my vibe so.

I was told this book was very feminist & that was helpful. I thought the book might've been poly but it wasn't. Like one of the boyfriends ended up being a self-centered rapist.

Anyways, I actually thought she was black until I thought about the school scene & was like wait a minute the schools were segregated back then. The discussion of desegregation if business towards the end was awkward because that's not desegregation of homes, but whatever.

Anyway, she's white. The title for this book in Spanish calls her "savaje", a savage. Thankfully there's no cultural appropriation of native/indigenous Americans, but still keep an eye on that in discussions about this book because that would end up putting a bunch of racist stereotypes on people. But that would be more the fault of the readers I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism