Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

60 reviews

changbinslemonade's review against another edition

dark 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and War

Moderate: Lesbophobia, War, Torture, Slavery, and Panic attacks/disorders

lilibethh's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.0

3.5
Non ero molto convinta per la maggior parte del libro devo dire. Molto scontato, molto prevedibile: visto e rivisto. Ma verso la fine sono rimasta piacevolmente sorpresa. Le ultime 150 pagine del libro danno la premessa per un sequel fantastico che io leggerò quasi sicuramente. Però devo chiedere: DOVE LO NASCONDEVATE MERRIN? CIOÈ QUELL’UOMO FA MORIRE IO LO AMO, MA C’È IN SOLO DUE SCENE. PERCHÉ.



Credo ancora che la parte fantasy nel libro sia vagamente debole e spero che nel secondo libro ci si dedichi più a quella parte del mondo. Il libro inizia sicuramente una conversazione importante sull’abuso (che sia mentale o fisico), e apre i libri LGBT+ un po’ di più a quelli che apprezzano i fantasy più che i contemporanei. La forza della relazione di Wren e Lei si vede sopratutto alla fine, dove finalmente viene fatto spazio a personaggi interessanti tipo Kenzo e Merrin, ma sopratutto alle loro qualità al di fuori di uno spazio abusivo e sessista come la Women Court.


Ho trovato davvero non necessaria la storyline della madre di Lei, ma magari servirà ancora nel corso della storia, chi lo sa.


IL FINALE MI HA LASCIATO I BRIVIDINI SULLA SCHIENA.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny

raiynnn's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Genocide, Slavery, Torture, Sexism, and Racism

Minor: Emotional abuse

mckinleyrae316's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

As much as I love queer books, this book is insanely triggering and should not be read by anyone who feels as though they might not be able to handle it, I feel as though I shouldn’t have read it. Please make yourself aware of the content of the book before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

julesnw's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Death

missazane's review against another edition

challenging sad 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Outing and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent

Very graphic animal abuse at beginning of book

gianna24's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Outing, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Xenophobia

emibear_far's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Amazing representation of the LGBTQIA+ community with a diverse cast of Asian characters  set in a interesting fantasy world. Be weary that it covers the topic of rape and recovery from SA so be careful if that is a trigger for you.

the demon king does not receive any redemption and is portrayed as a villain throughout the whole series  

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cursing

mothie_girlie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction and Confinement

Minor: Medical trauma and Vomit

charliebriggs96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.0

This book was so immersive and enthralling that I was captured and transported in every page to beautiful settings, smells and textures that can only be felt by an author who is good at what they are doing. But the storyline to this book is what makes it a brilliant fantasy read!

I loved that this book is an open discussion about the harms that some traditions can do to women. Especially younger, possibly easier to manipulate girls who know no different, and never have had to. Lei’s character brings those questions, questions that show this negativity in traditions, to light, opening the eyes possibly to many. I loved this, although Lei herself is naive in certain topics, her fight and her drive is admirable to say the least.

Class is another discussion in this book that I feel is handled well, it isn’t too far away from current discussions in our world, albeit we don’t have a Bull/Demon King in ours. It’s still believable and relatable to me, something I feel is very hard to do in any book especially in a book with magic and humanoid creatures.

TW: this book does have a king who essentially SA’s women every year in the name of tradition, one is as young as 16. His age isn’t verified, but he’s at least nearly 30 I think. He also at one point rapes a character but it isn’t heavily described. He also openly beats these women to the point that they have shamans to heal them every time they ‘visit’ him.

Finally, the romance in this book is utterly pure and delightful although they have to hide it for their safety. They communicate well, and discuss things that I think leads to a healthy relationship. And it’s sapphic, what’s not to love!? Wren and Lei are my new OTP, I hope the second book fairs well for them. (Yes I am buying the second book ASAP).

Read this book, it’s so good. With a small shaky start this book blooms into a fantastic read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence