Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

47 reviews

miamuller's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

alienexpert's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Minor: Forced institutionalization

kylosten's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Pacing was a little weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Medical content

_lars_'s review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Violence, Ableism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abandonment

There was some really uncomfortable

sexual scenes described from a child's perspective & then more sexual scenes acted out by said child

drpeeper's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

3.5

Not as bad as I feared, some inaccurate pop psychology that would likely only bother folks that work in the field, maybe some ableism/not ideal depiction of mental health but not egregious. Chapters from kid’s POV were deeply cringey but i could see how that would be hard to avoid. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Sexual content, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cursing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Child abuse

rorunyon96's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

khowey's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Incest

mlynn2004's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

1.5

If the author truly wants to continue writing horror, she is going to have to figure out how to reign in her overwhelming ableism. I think— I hope— what she was attempting to do is destabilize the reader’s sense of reality: an admittedly effective way to incite horror. But in actuality, the most horrifying about this book is the nagging concern that the author is either compassionless, uninformed or hell-bent on pathologizing a seemingly neurodivergent and obviously traumatized child. 

Under the circumstances of the plot, this could have been a challenging an honest look at parenting through generational trauma, but instead the author chooses to demonize a child that is clearly suffering, even while presenting good reason for that suffering. It is a baffling choice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Ableism, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse

danyels_denouements's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Forced institutionalization