Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

9 reviews

feralbookwife's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.75

Haunting in every way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

ldawson's review

dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

kiddocut's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

Fantastic quick read about a boiling family drama, framed in a setting that calls back to class, gender and academic background-and how that affects our ability to interpret  the world both in a literal and emotional sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Classism, Child abuse, Sexism, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Bullying, Body shaming, Racism, Blood, Torture, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Sexual content, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Cultural appropriation

There is a use of a slide one time-to describe a character’s inability or stubbornness to adapt his language to modern terminology in a historical context. I didn’t anticipate it and I wish there was someone who mentioned it. It’s a story heavily about a fractured and demanding father whose daughter is just discovering herself. It is well written and I think all TW that I applied are accurate.

readersreadingnook's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

odrib's review against another edition

dark informative sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Animal death

Minor: Racism and Body shaming

madarauchiha's review

dark slow-paced

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

0.25

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

What a tedious novella. This isn't horror. Not, like, paranormal or supernatural or anything horror genre. This is more literary than anything else. I read it by rapidly flipping through the pages and gleaning the general plot. Took, like, 10 minutes to 'read'.

It's a story about abuse of power and misogyny and sexism. Boring, full offense, and the lack of apostrophes and indications of speech is extremely irritating to me. [Placeholder for a go fund me link to buy the author some apostrophes and periods.]

Also the lgbt rep? Nonexistent. Oh you get a flacid, pure wholesome [slur intended] white bread version of a girl having a crush on another girl. Thats it. At times I think authors just throw in a splash of lgbt rep just to claim its 'diverse' and thus becomes harder to criticize because 'omg, are you homophobic? you don't like a book with gay people in it? smh, you're horrrible!!'

A better review of this novella by someone else is here

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e2283c59-2dd4-4b97-bfdf-fb4f09469f0b

content warnings 

major classism, toxic relationships, domestic abuse, victim blaming, gore, animal death, death, child abuse, violence, misogyny, 

medium injuries, blood, animal death, 

minor whorephobic language, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

booking_along's review

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

spaghettireads's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• 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: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs

sandyd's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Well written exploration of history, experimental archaeology, sexism, abuse, and class differences. I enjoyed the story and the descriptions very much, but the ending was abrupt and left me frustrated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Emotional abuse