Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Hello Girls by Emily Henry, Brittany Cavallaro

23 reviews

alexcabanechevarria's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Drug use, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Dementia, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Addiction, Death, and Physical abuse

kelseyburnell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

kelsimitchell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I really hated their families, which I guess is the point. It’s obviously a story about friendship and choosing your own family, but wow some of these characters were so easy to hate! Overall, really interesting book - I couldn’t put it down! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

cass_lit's review against another edition

3.75

Despite the incredible trauma these 17 and 18-year old girls have been through, this was a fun ride. You have to suspend reality obviously, because the situations they’re in are dangerous and likely would *not* have turned out the way they did. I mean, they

kill a well known and dangerous drug lord and hold a gun to Stormy’s head

and then still get to run off into the sunset. It’s a messy story that’s somehow so clean. My big complaint is that I do feel like we focused a lot more on Winona here and I would’ve liked to explore Lucille’s current sitch as well. Winona wrapped everything up nicely enough in her life, but Lucille deserved to get back at her brother and she deserves to have her mom at least acknowledge (or not!) her leaving. I get maybe the reality is that Lucille will never know, but because we got

both of Winona’s parents’ setups

, I would’ve liked Lucille’s too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder

lovetlr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Drug abuse

spelled_with_a_k's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

katharina90's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

Overall enjoyed but didn't love this YA take on Thelma and Louise.

I liked the portrayal of female friendship and how empowering and healing it can be, but this theme could have been explored a lot more in depth. 

The abuse and abandonment experienced by the main characters is pretty harrowing. Definitely not a fluffy feel-good read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Gun violence, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Pedophilia

hwhite15's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Blood

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This whole book feels like a bad fever dream and I don’t know how else to explain it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Classism, Death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Murder

shailana's review against another edition

emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, and Child abuse