Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Toutes les nuances de la nuit by Chris Whitaker

252 reviews

ladylofthouse's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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Hauntingly beautiful and completely unpredictable as one pirate's obsession spans decades and forces sacrifices from all who are devoted to him. Despite the shocking page turners and unconditional love throughout, this is about so much more. There's issues of morality, the justice system, guilt, and bodily autonomy, but it is wholly about childhoods that are senselessly stolen. I often thought about how many are really out there lost, unknown, or forgotten. This is a testament to the beauty in tragedy, hope in trauma, love in sacrifice and all the other colors in the dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Child death, Abortion, Classism

Minor: Rape

jog_uk's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse

issyybells's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

jenhfultz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

cmhanisco's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

alixcallender's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

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Beautiful prose, but I bit…overdone. I wasn’t sure what exactly I was supposed to care about, so some of the details were lost on me. Chapter endings that were clearly meant to be revelatory and profound often left me feeling a bit confused. Could have used a LOT of editing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Violence, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

Minor: Incest, Rape, Alcohol

nirvanagrrl's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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

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I absolutely loved this book. It moved me to tears on three different occasions.
Having grown up in Missouri during a portion of the timeline of this book makes it even more meaningful, but more importantly the way it shows different types of love is absolutely beautiful. Not only is there love, there is compassion, regret, grief, pain, and passion. I could not have asked for a more meaningful and moving 600+ page read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy

jess_polishedcomma's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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"Giving a man a badge and a gun doesn't mean you've given him the moral code to use either correctly."


This is a loooong book. It felt too long in many places, even though it was very beautifully written. It was a very long arc of seeking justice/revenge, discovery, and secrets. I wasn't intentionally skimming, even when I got to the end, and I felt like it wrapped up so many loose ends that I didn't know existed that I got lost.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy

Minor: Violence

jevette15's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Abortion, Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy

Minor: Incest, Stalking

kvilla17's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I wanted to love this book. There were parts that were well written but the chapters ended abruptly each time. Sometimes I was confused and had to re read certain parts to figure where things were. Patch went through something terrible and I’m glad it focused on the aftermath and how things aren’t perfect after a traumatic event.

Kids aren’t made to fix things so using a kid as a tool to help the character threw me off

But again I love the character development and wish we could have focused on more characters as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Death of parent