Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Thorn by Intisar Khanani

56 reviews

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious

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A princess who would honestly rather be a goose girl, now that's intriguing. This story swept me up immediately and I felt so much anger on Alyrra's behalf. Valka? AWFUL. Alyrra's family? AWFUL. I knew where this story was going, but I had no idea how we would get there and that was very enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping

dlrosebyh's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Trafficking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

iksme's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous reflective 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

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For a YA book it is very refreshing to see no love interest, yes there is a prince but there is no romance toward him only platonic friendliness.
A slap in the face to all thoes who think romance is key to a novel. And it's been a day and a half since I read it and I can't get it out of my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death

ggmay's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual assault

leah_j's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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i have to say that while this book had a slow pace, to me it didn’t feel like it dragged on. i enjoyed each part of it, though i did find the begging few chapters a little more dull compared to the rest of the book.

i adored the characters, falada in particular. if you’d have told me going into this book that a horse was going to win my heart i’d probably have laughed in your face. alyrra was a particularly interesting and loveable character and her battles with the question of what justice truly was is one of the best features of this book.

it is easily one of my favourite fairytale retellings, and i liked the writing style immensely, so i will definitely be looking for more by intisar khanani. i recommend it but i do also recommend looking at the warnings as the story does cover some dark themes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault

Minor: Slavery, Torture

malloryfitz's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder

whatthefridge's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-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

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This was amazing. I binged it so fast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood

abookandaspotoftea's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Torture, Violence

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

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I loved this story. It helped that it had themes of justice, and explored a bit of where justice can intersect with both kindness and cruelty, but even aside from that it had interesting characters and a different, but still very believable, take on the story of The Goose Girl. I suspect this one will be going on my favorites shelf...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse

Minor: Rape, Kidnapping

jean_marie's review against another edition

5.0

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse