Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

19 reviews

ebassin713's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Miscarriage

amgarrido's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Colonisation, War, and Blood

Minor: Miscarriage

sonea_moon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

ekatayama's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Miscarriage and Infertility

persimmons's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Violence, and Toxic relationship

bethcarmo21's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Toxic relationship

themessyannotator's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.75

I had to read this book for a summer reading assignment and, as I usually don’t like the books I read for school, I wasn’t expecting to like this book either. It’s started off a little slow for the first few chapters but then it picked up and I could not put it down. I absolutely love this book and I cant exactly explain why but the writing is so beautiful, the narrative is so intriguing, and the overall story just pulls you in so much so that you forget you’re reading. I annotated this book like crazy because I just had so much to say and so many things I wanted to underline. 

To sum up, I definitely recommend to anyone 14+. This is an amazing, AMAZING novel so don’t hesitant to read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism

booksjessreads's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I read this book a while ago and so this review will be the imprints of the book that have been left on me, rather than an in-depth review. 

Adichie's writing was hard to get into and made getting into the plot quite hard. As someone who was a slow-reader at this point (I have certainly got quicker through the year), I definitely found it hard to read and it took me a while to get through. 

The book was also dealing with some very heavy themes and looked at the way that Kambili interacts with them as a child. I think it is interesting the way that Adichie portrays Kambili's thoughts on the occurrences and she knows that they are wrong, but her agency as a young teen is minimised significantly, and so it is interesting to see how Kambili lives and copes with the trauma. 

I probably wouldn't read this again although enjoyed some parts of the novel and there was a small plot twist at the end which was good. If you like something that is a bit mundane and at a slower-pace, with darker elements in, then this would definitely be for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder

annalisaely's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book looks at important and heavy topics in a sensitive and complex way. I loved the main character and her brother very much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism