Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh

329 reviews

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-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

Wjw best heftig dit boek!! Ik ben echt wel beetje in shock. Ma wel goed en echt slow burn!

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emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional funny hopeful sad
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional sad 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: No

Holy hell is this addicting! I totally see the hype. Is it one of the most traumatizing and hard stories I’ve ever read? Yes. Is it also one of the most beautiful things ever? Yes. Didn’t plan on binging this series but I just might have to. 

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challenging emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

This is a masterpiece!

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emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Tell me ONE MORE TIME how small she is. How teeny tiny fragile eensy weensy little she is. Make her practically disappear. Gorgeous but also invisible.

Make the tiniest girl who ever girled (who is way too young but also maybe not) be mortally humiliated performing such tasks as walking, taking off a shoe, being greeted by dogs, and sitting down on a bus. Make her take not one, but TWO, embarrassing unplanned showers at the home of the boy she likes. Make sure she unintentionally exposes her body to him a lot. Her clothes must keep falling off or up or open or down. Tell us more about how much sex he has had, which is A LOT in case you were wondering, and how many orgasms he has had in the past few months, which is NONE. Tell us again how she’s never been kissed. Make it weird. Obviously assume none of these girls are having orgasms.

When Shannon and Johnny do communicate, make sure it is exclusively in apologies and/or projections (her) and grunts and/or groans (him). Make sure they never address anything directly but instead do all sorts to make things more confusing and to maximize misunderstanding. Do it for the plot! Make them have the worst, most useless friends who are willing to let them each straight up die rather than tell the truth to anyone about what’s happening. Make sure he guesses and guesses about her abuser, and still doesn’t think quite hard enough about it to ask why she’s afraid to go home.

Look: I was interested in their home lives. I was interested in her history of trauma and his fear of loss of self. I was interested in the whole plot, actually. I kept getting pulled along by the story BUT THEN it repeated, again, the same internal dialogue, the same childish self-sabotage, the same stubborn cycle over and over and over. And over. With literally the same language. On repeat. Forever.

It comes dangerously close to fetishization of victimization. It makes me uncomfy and it needed an editor. I don’t know if I’ll continue the series, but probably not. Is this just me? Maybe it’s me. But this is the first actual review I’ve written here, so I’m bothered enough to vent.

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dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No

The hype is most definitely worth it

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dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The characters are very generic and the gender roles depicted are archaic. The emphasis on her virginity and fragility is borderline creepy, and the 'other woman' is portrayed as so evil that it made cringe so bad in misogyny. And of course, the love interest is also portrayed as an extremely strong man. Overall, I think it did a somewhat unrealistic but not too bad a job of addressing abuse and bullying. Yes, there were many red flags, but at least it opens up a conversation about these issues. It may not be the most realistic portrayal, but it gives the opportunity to discuss these topics, and I liked that it AT LEAST didn't romanticise abusers. Overall, it was like a good soap opera, and I just can't rate it any lower because I was so entertained. + it was not spicy, a real slow burn, which I didn't expect at all. I guess I'm guilty :^)

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dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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