Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

37 reviews

mirireads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Minor: Abortion, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, and Medical content

baguettegay's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

I thought this was just okay. For all of the wonderful things I’ve heard about it, I guess I just expected too much. I actually skimmed the last few chapters and just read the ending.
It wasn’t all bad; I think the two lives that Marian and Hadley both led existing as parallels was brilliant. I just think the time jumps were weird and it took me 100+ pages to feel any sort of connection to either story line.

I also take off stars when there are unnecessary assault scenes (not one, not two, but too many.) There are plenty of other ways to make a point without detailing something so incredibly horrific on more than one occasion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

jennikreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Abortion

mrslyndyp's review against another edition

Read the content warnings given in many reviews before you try this. After 120 pages I'd had enough. The concept was really interesting and promised so much and I really wanted to enjoy the adventure but was sadly, very disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

kacyn21's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

The author is clearly a good writer and has a way with words, but I was too disappointed by the frequent dysfunctional sexual scenarios that played out multiple times in the first 30 pages alone. It was too disturbing for me to continue onward. The storyline/plot is very interesting and I wish these scenes hadn’t been written so graphically and frequently. Takes away from the rest of the story.

knittingtipsy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, and War

paolina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Took me ages to get through this one. I was always engaged while reading it, but seldom felt like picking it back up again when I set it down for a while due to all the hardships the characters go through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual violence, Suicide, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, War, Infidelity, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

siobhanfuller's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexism

marnie17's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, and War

ladymirtazapine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War