Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

105 reviews

erinvasut's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Death, Dementia, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Grief

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Rape

Moderate: Dementia, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Transphobia and Cursing

vertibravia's review

challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

savreads28's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racial slurs, Medical content, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Racism, Death, Abandonment, Classism, Grief, and Dysphoria

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

informative mysterious tense 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

4.5

this was a very enlightening read with a lot of interesting characters and perspectives. this book is entirely third-person which i don’t often enjoy quite so much, but the author used it very well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Abandonment, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Dementia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual content

i count “sexual content” as consensual acts, so that’s why i tag it as minor

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

5.0

This was an absolutely incredible book. I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Racial slurs, and Bullying

dqueen's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I’ve put off reading this book for a long time and I regret not picking it up sooner. The story was so magnetizing I couldn’t put it down, I had to continue turned the pages to see what would happen next.

I love the intricacies of the multi generational family and how brilliantly their stories were laid out, explored and overlapped one another. 

The exploration of girlhood through to womanhood was done well, along with the mother, daughter and sister relationships. The commentary on race was jarring to my sheltered Australian life, however I recognize that is a reality for many. 

My only criticism is that I felt it ended abruptly, but perhaps that was just me yearning for more! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Racism, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Violence, Abandonment, Mental illness, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Transphobia, Classism, and Vomit

clairew97's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Cursing, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

sperigo's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

God, this book was incredible. Brit Bennett is a fantastic writer. She writes gorgeous prose, and the most compelling, well developed characters. This books follows an ensemble cast of family members, each with lives radically different from each other, as they find themselves and then eventually grapple with whether or not they want to find one another. 

It’s been a long time since I’ve read a novel longer than 300 pages, yet I couldn’t put this one down.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Racial slurs, Abandonment, and Dementia

Moderate: Grief, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Minor: Addiction