Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Overstory by Richard Powers

6 reviews

bazer63's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Reading through this book is a bit of work but it is worth the effort. The way the plot threads weave together into a tragedy both fantastical and utterly mundane is wonderful. I have never read another book like it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Police brutality

Minor: Child abuse and Blood

dragongirl271's review against another edition

challenging 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, Bullying, Sexual violence, Police brutality, War, Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

pedanther's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Terminal illness, Infertility, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Dementia, Misogyny, Racism, Ableism, and Bullying

Minor: Drug use, Colonisation, Vomit, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Car accident, and Child death

hashbrownwarrior's review against another edition

Bored with the story. Didn’t really care about any of the characters. Didn’t like the narrator’s voice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, War, Violence, and Domestic abuse

perseusj4ckson's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Violence, Suicide, and Death

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Suicide, and Car accident

abomine's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

WIP 

The first quarter of this book was the best part, a compelling little collection of short stories about characters from all walks of life and the significant ways trees have influenced their lives. It was lovely, lyrical and subtle in its message. Everything after that was not nearly as enjoyable, between the sudden preachiness, the lack of interconnectedness between most of the characters (contrary to The Overstory's blurb), the info-dumpy rehash of information about tree communities/intelligence that would only be compelling to people who know absolutely nothing about trees, and an ending that felt less ambiguous and more like a dwindling out.

The reviews promising a mind-blowing tour de force, something that would change the way I looked at the world, an epic about humanity's role in nature that did with trees that Moby-Dick did with whales, definitely over-hyped this book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Ableism, and War

Minor: Child abuse