Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom

6 reviews

lowbrowhighart'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Medical trauma, Vomit, Eating disorder, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Drug use, Medical content, Terminal illness, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Body horror, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Sexual content, and Cancer

Minor: Car accident and Infertility

jennastopreading's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

jaimee_reads's review

dark sad 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

2.75

I feel like the book box I got this from mis-represented the book. This book is not about the procedure. The procedure is covered in a single paragraph about 2/3 of the way through the book. This is about a very specific 6 month or so period of Anna's life that is supposed to give the reader an idea of why she wanted this procedure. It seemed very tech dystopian when I was reading the summary, but it's not. It's very literary and sad. I love the author's writing, but this isn't what I expected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Alcohol, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Grief, Body shaming, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Drug use, Rape, Misogyny, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Gore, Body horror, Cancer, Bullying, and Chronic illness

dpageteach00's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

This was a very quick read for me.  A terrifying look at social media, the pressure of looking a certain way, although it is all around us. I know how difficult it was for me in my 20s (and still is NOW) I can't imagine the young kids today dealing with all of this.  Yes, very shallow at times, but that is the reality.  Perfectionism, addiction and so much more. I thought this was very well written and the voice of the main character was not a "woe me". She was aware of what she was doing, her mistakes, he pull, and unapologetic about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

kaiulanilee's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Drug use, Body shaming, Sexism, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Death, and Addiction

albon's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Rape, Emotional abuse, and Drug abuse