Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Threadneedle by Cari Thomas

19 reviews

debonthebackstreet's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

An enjoyable, fast-paced read, especially at the end. The descriptions of magic, friendship and sisterhood felt alive and leapt of the page. Part coming of age novel - a young girl finding freedom and falling in love for the first time in her life despite years of abuse - part magical realism, part mystery. There were lots of twists and turns that made me want to carry on reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, and Blood

nuttynat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book has an interesting premise and delivers on it, for the most part. It explores themes of coming-of-age, family, friendship and trust. The world-building is my favorite aspect of this book: set in modern-day London within the things we cannot see (or what we think we cannot see). My main qualm with this book is its synopsis that sets an expectation that is not delivered in this book to a large degree, however, if you disregard the synopsis, it is still an excellent read. I look forward to reading the sequel and cannot wait to see what lies ahead for our protagonist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, and Violence

emberise's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Murder

silversparkles50's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Blood, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Confinement

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

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

readingelli's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Murder

Loss of free will, mind control through magic, poison

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