Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

102 reviews

mcloysmom's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Confinement, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

shahad_086's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death

asyakilic23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Stalking, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

tiannastarfall's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

This book surprised me. I thought it was going to be a "steamy" novel a la "shades of grey" and that I would be abandoning it pretty quickly. It turned out to be something else entirely.  Starting in an asylum with a broken teenage girl, that was very well written, it soon became clear that it was set in a dystopian near future and the last few chapters felt more like a superhero back-story than anything else. I am very intrigued to see where this goes in the next book. I liked the characters and the writing style and yes, there were a couple of steamy scenes, but they worked in the context they were placed in and were Ok.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Mental illness

avocado_soap's review against another edition

fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Confinement

Minor: Gun violence

diamond627's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

tabea1409's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Gaslighting, Blood, Classism, Gore, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, War, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Confinement, and Torture

xgabrielle_hx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Torture

kokopeach's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

2.5

Reasons to Bump This Up On Your TBR:

You read purely for entertainment, like flowery language full of metaphors, teen dystopia will romantic sub-plot.

Reasons to Bump This Down On Your TBR (more in content warnings):

If you’re not into first person POV or in search for a plot with substance. FMC was inconsistent in thoughts vs actions. What was that ending?? It just abruptly stops and should’ve ended a couple of chapters before imo.

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ Extras ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

Tears shed? No

Spice? More sweet than spicy, this is Y/A after all

Happy Ever After? Ends on semi-positive note, to be continued…

Cliffhanger? Yes and no. (This is book 1 in a series but honestly easily DNFd)

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ My Rating System 1-5 ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

Characters (Well-developed? Interesting?) — 3 (Warner and Kenji are doing heavy lifting here)

Worldbuilding/Atmosphere (Coherent? Immersive? Consistent?) — 3

Plot (Well-balanced or underwhelming? Pacing?) — 2

Logic (Characters traits align with their actions? Convincing arcs/plot resolution?) — 1

Writing Style (Prose, dialogue, repetition, etc.) — 2.5

Intrigue (Page turner? Overall enjoyment?) — 3

Average Rating: 2.4 rounded to 2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Torture

Parental/Societal abuse.

sbrnamthla's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Confinement, and Abandonment

Moderate: Torture and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment