Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

24 reviews

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, War, Death of parent, Body shaming, Bullying, Slavery, Sexual content, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abortion, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

emily_y's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: War and Blood

Minor: Death of parent and Abortion

greenan26's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Sexual assault

Moderate: Physical abuse, Bullying, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, and Adult/minor relationship

lycheeteareads's review

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, War, and Child abuse

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

kirstar's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Pedophilia, and Racism

Minor: War, Abortion, and Death of parent

emmaeleone's review

I will edit when I get the book to see how far I read. I ended up not finishing this novel due to after conducting research on the author and the subject, discovered that the novel was based on a real life geisha who was to remain nameless. The author, supposedly, still revealed the name of the woman despite assuring that she would remain anonymous. I plan on reading her account on her life rather than this fictive one! That information ruined the book for me, but without knowing this it was an interesting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Trafficking

mandyrose's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Positive: There are some beautiful metaphors in this novel making use of water & nature.
Negative: It was painful reading a novel centred around a woman being tossed around by men. And I didn’t love the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Abandonment, Death of parent, Rape, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abortion

tomnoor's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Death of parent, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Minor: Abortion, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

tessazwaan's review

challenging informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I looooved to read this - even though I have some criticism about it too (the “all the rape stories by American soldiers turned out to be untrue and they are so kind instead” sentence for example) - it was so informative about something I had no idea of

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Rape, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, and Trafficking

ladybirder's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and War