Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

803 reviews

euleau's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

sdelaney27's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

mishaps's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment

Minor: Cursing, Death of parent

sea_tea_books's review against another edition

4.0

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

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"I was an afterthought to my mother." 

Pros:
The audiobook was gold and I liked hearing two different voices describe different perspectives. Justin

was so funny the way he deadpanned some of the jokes!

The storyline kept me interested, and I was thinking about it outside of listening time. And their flaws made the characters seem real, rather than storybook ideal. 

Critiques:
Some character traits were trigger-ish (

enabling, normalizing toxic behavior, abandonment & neglect, eldest child syndrome, hypocrisy, denial, etc.

) and I appreciated the author's forewarning. 

The overuse of the term

"best friend" when referring to Maddie, when in fact they were essentially sisters/foster family siblings.

Probably my biggest irritation with this story was

the ending. Everything was wrapped up so neatly, kumbaya and all that, with decades of childhood abuse and trauma rapidly resolved in a few months. Emma had the PRIVILEGE to simply leave a challenging situation, to literally abandon the people who care about her, while she tried EMDR therapy. She had the PRIVILEGE to put her life and her relationships on pause while she took half a year to herself, and then waltzed back into everyone's lives as a healed person. I just can't get on board with that. It's unrealistic to say the least!

Also, it must be said,

Amber makes me ragey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment

dennasus'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: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I recall that I enjoyed others in the series and I wasn't disappointed. This was cute in it's way and the characters had enough depth and interesting back story. Emma's was pretty dark, almost a bit too much. I liked the throwbacks to the previous stories and am tempted to reread those. Someday.

[I've stopped rating books]

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse

afayebray730's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Classism

tayrayholla's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment

kysmith13's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful 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

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Better character growth in this book that the previous in this series, I.e. the FMC wasn’t too stubborn to change. The plot was more realistic in pace and leaned into the reality of the trauma both main characters experienced. Couldn’t put it down towards the end! Author did a good job tying in the other characters in the world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment

eunha_'s review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent

Minor: Car accident

alexandrannb's review against another edition

4.5

emotional medium-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment