Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

179 reviews

willa_bryn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Child death, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

unique_polarizer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

4.0

full of idyllic imagery, complexities and reflective attributes. 

Kambili as someone who worships her father as almost god-like comes to terms with the abuse and the gaslighting and religious justifications for what he does. Adichie embraces freedom from this throughout the defiance towards the end of the book and after the events of palm Sunday

a beautiful read, like the rest of Adichie's works, as a debut I felt it was a compelling read, where this compellingness develops in her later works like Half of a yellow Sun and Americanah - characters are fleshed out and plot and characters are well constructed. Not to say this read wasn't. It was a very satisfying read in a sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

hevlav's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

arangele's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

afletche's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Miscarriage

mai_books_nature's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage

almond's review against another edition

5.0

Not an easy listen, but a good one. Several scenes reminded me of my childhood in South America. Funny the commonalities across these two different continents. 

I got the sense that Eugene was fundamentally a good man trying to do the right thing, and I couldn’t help but wonder what sort of father and husband he might have been without the corrupting influence of religion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

erin99's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Ik vond dit een goed boek. Ik had er iets anders van verwacht maar ben aangenaam verrast. Het trage tempo gaf me het gevoel dat ik daar was onder de warme zon wanneer alles zo sloom wordt. Ik hou van boeken die me compleet doen meevoelen met de personages. Het verlangen van Kambili naar de pastoor kwam echt binnen. Die moeilijke mengeling van verdriet, woede en liefde voor een ouder die ‘abusive’ is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Blood and Death

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

Can’t find my copy… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

hannaemilia's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse