Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 6 by 墨香铜臭, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

13 reviews

ancisc's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Gore, and Emotional abuse

emisreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I cried, I sobbed, I hurt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Mental illness, Death, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Abandonment and Bullying

apileofcranes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

I would say this book is the heaviest yet in the series, but manages to still leave the reader with hope. The final pieces of this giant puzzle are coming together at long last, and we finally get to know the last piece of Xie Lian’s tortured past, letting us understand what drove him to (and redeemed him from) these actions that had seemed incongruous from his present self.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Vomit

predawns's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

In all honesty... This is the only volume, ever. The only one I need to give trigger warnings to as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, War, Gore, and Alcohol

merc_birb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Body horror, Torture, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Self harm, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

tylercrow's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

I have only felt this depressed one other time, and that was when I finished A Little Life. I don’t think I can physically write a review for this one.

Check out the trigger warnings if you ever wanna read this series…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Death, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

ara02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Cursing, Body horror, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Murder

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The beginning of the book warmed me up for the chill I was going to experience reading arc 4. It was so painful, yet so good. Xie Lian is such a well written character. I’m curious when White  No-Face’s identity will be revealed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Torture, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Outing and Homophobia

gokurakuji's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

4.75

{ in case anyone sees this, my actual review of this book is on the full, webnovel version }

for my own reference:

- after an avalanche, xie lian and hua cheng come across a cave of ten thousand gods
- xie lian reveals that he had always known that "nan feng" was actually feng xin and "fu yao" was actually mu qing
- mu qing and feng xin attempt to keep xie lian away from hua cheng after discovering this entire cave is filled with xie lian statues and that hua cheng was the small child during the shangyuan procession back in xianle
- CONFESSION SCENE!!! "'your highness... you really will... be the death of me.'"
- white no-face reappears and traps xie lian in the kiln, wanting xie lian to become a new calamity
- ALL OF ARC/BOOK 4: WHITE-CLOTHED CALAMITY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- mu qing leaves
- feng xin and xie lian begin to busk, but get into a turf war that leaves one man nearly crippled
- the king of xianle is revealed to be quite ill while the queen now delights in """cooking"""
- xie lian buys a bunch of ghost lanterns from a shady cultivator and puts them to rest... but one sticks around and prays never to rest
- xie lian resorts to trying to rob a man and is caught by some junior officials, but they promise to keep quiet
- when finally going to cultivate, xie lian finds a great spot that ends up also being found by ~33 heavenly officials. this all blows up when it's revealed that the news of xie lian resorting to robbing has spread throughout heaven and then mu qing - a lower court official once more - joins and is forced to get xie lian to leave
- xie lian starts seeing white no-face everywhere
- temple scene........................
- xie lian forces feng xin to leave
- xie lian's parents............. ruoye is 'born'...................
- xie lian vows to use the resentful and vengeful souls of xianle (soldiers and those who died from human face disease) to kill lang ying, king of yong'an
- xie lian gets a new assistant, wuming
- lang ying dies as he was already, willingly, infected with human face disease of his wife and child
- xie lian says in 3 days he will release the resentful xianle souls but first lays in a street with a sword through him
- at the last second, One Man gives xie lian his bamboo hat to shield him from the rain
- xie lian decides to not destroy all of yong'an but when he starts to take in all the souls, wuming instead does
- white no-face reveals that wuming had been his One Last Believer
- xie lian ascends again and asks jun wu to banish him
- he begins his common life and hopes 'we shall meet again' after seeing a small red flower on the side of the road
- end of arc/book 4!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Child death

oopsimgay's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so, so intense. It is not for the faint of heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief