Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

67 reviews

raindrops333's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Pedophilia

gigglygabriela's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault and Child abuse

rosa_lina96's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

2.0

Kind of struggled to get into this book, to be honest. The writing style made it difficult to determine exactly where the plot was going (and I'm not even sure that the book was meant to have a strict plot structure in the first place), and I feel like I didn't really get enough of a grasp of the characters to really feel a deeper connection to them as a whole. I could see why other people like this book, as the writing style is engaging and at times seems almost poetic, but it personally just wasn't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Child death

orangebeanreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

Reading "The House on Mango Street" makes you remember what it felt like to come into consciousness as a child. Throughout each short, which Cisneros expertly crafts into their own complete story, we watch Ezperansa process her world of Mango Street. It's touching and occasionally rather striking to glimpse into the life of a young Hispanic girl coming into her own. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Car accident, and Child death

Added content warnings are mild, within the book they are from a child's perspective and help her to form an understanding of the world.

solliereads's review against another edition

4.0

A really beautiful and well-crafted selection of vignettes that can be read separately as shorter pieces of fiction, or as a part of a larger whole to give an insight into the violence and struggle experienced by Esperanza, as well as coming-of-age moments, growing up as a Latina on a street in Chicago called Mango Street. Cisneros weaves a truly wonderful story based on her own experiences.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape and Child abuse

Minor: Death and Child death

houseofatreides's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The book written in vignettes is a moving story of Esperanza a young girl who moves to Mango Street, her parents buying their first home. Unfortunately it is not at all what she dreamt of as a home. Through the story time passes and we see Esperanza begin to grow up over that year. The trials she faces on Mango street. The rough neighborhood and the pains of growing up in that environment. Throughout the story she begins to loose her childhood innocence through events and situations that no young girl should go through but many do. But because of those she develops a sense of self of right and wrong and of leaving Mango street to come back to help those in need. A wonderful coming of age story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Domestic abuse

_annika__'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Classism, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual harassment

bookdrunkard78's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Car accident, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

axel_p's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

I don't know what to think about the book

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Car accident, Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Child death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, Body shaming, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death, and Terminal illness

historyoftape's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad 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? No

4.75

Every vignette seemed like its own poem, a child picking apart someone else's brain, asking only questions adults would be ashamed or scared to ask, and coming to conclusions about herself through it all. I wished this was longer-but at the same time I understand that it couldn't be, because maybe the next vignette would have been the leaving, and maybe the coming back would have been much later, or never, and I guess the not knowing was the point anyways - I was in love with every character, ached for every character, and loved Esperanza though she seemed to talk about herself only in relation to others. And isn't that how a child learns and grows? By defining the world in vignettes, in people you want to become and people who show you what directions you never want to take? I have discovered that one day, I too might return to mango street. The house I belong to but do not belong to. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Grief, Bullying, Addiction, Alcohol, Child death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship