Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

42 reviews

directorpurry's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

foreverbookwandering's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

This was way darker than I thought it would be and definitely needed trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Death

themelleh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.25

I feel like I connected to this book a bit more because I used to live near some of the locations. I could properly see Dulwich and imagine these four teenage girls trying to find a post box. 

The world building was wonderful and there was so much that really made it an enjoyable read. In fact I read it quite quickly for me, but there were times when I wanted to speed up what was happening. It felt like it was taking too long to get to the reveals of who some of the characters were and what there part of the story was. 

The whole bullying thread was a bit too much. Yes, it’s great that they all realise and learn from it, but it would have been nicer to see them learn their magic on something less petty and vengeful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

meagangrace's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Bullying, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

zimmerlemon's review against another edition

Oof. I had hopes but this was honestly genuinely unpleasant to read. The abusive aunt gets way too much readtime and it’s just not fun and I just am not into it. Yucky. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

sierrainstitches's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• 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: Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Suicide, Fatphobia, and Confinement

gondorgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Body shaming, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

sarahs_booknook's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.5

There are a number of things to like about this book: Anna as a lead is easy to connect and feel empathy for her story, the magic system and world is interesting and slightly different in some ways to what I've read before. 
The pacing made part of the story drag for me. The abuse is graphic at times and yet we spend ages focusing on teenage girl spats which feel like a shame game. The book really leans into slut shaming and for me, it never really addressed that as being wrong.
I don't think I'm intrigued enough by to continue with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Misogyny and Murder

lunawitch_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

r_gale's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

I did enjoy this book and will probably read the next one, loved the world building and learning about how the magic underworld of the narrative worked. 
Yet found the beginning hard to get though and the ending to me atleast was unsatisfying and just seemed to set up a cliffhanger for the next book. 

 
Spoiler
The last few chapters had me up late needing to finish it but after finishing the twist apon twist of who is the worse person was left pissed that the MC just gets 'saved' I wanted some serious emotional magical backlog power.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse