Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

201 reviews

annagy's review

Sigh...

I really wanted to be a part of the hype, especially since my friends are obsessed with this series. Alas, I made it 32 pages before my brain shrunk out of the sheer stupidity, so I'm giving up and moving on.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Mental illness

katieo156's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

You just had to be there (tumblr 2013). I can't rate it or defend the absolute nonsense within it, but I also have reread it 3 times. At its core, there is a small, traumatized man whose ranks a fictional, uber-violent version of lacrosse over his own life. Check trigger warnings because too many apply! This author has never read the DSM and it shows, so take it all with a grain of salt and turn your brain off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Violence, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

lani__'s review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

On a purely technical level was this all that great? No. But it was genuinely so entertaining I couldn't put it down. This is definitely not a book to go into thinking that it's going to be anything other than a fun time but honestly, that's what's so good about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Death, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, and Ableism

Minor: Suicide attempt

aschuylerlizard's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

this is like haikyuu but everyone is mad and traumatised and also wtf is that ending i'm still shocked

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Vomit and Sexual assault

Minor: Murder and Homophobia

abelh's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Bullying, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, Murder, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Sexism, Self harm, Physical abuse, Blood, Mental illness, Medical content, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

saachipahwa's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Giving fanfiction. The writing was so bland. For some reason, I'm gonna keep going and read the next one? 

Edit: [Was previously 2.5 stars. Changing to 3.5]. Rereading this knowing the characters better makes it 100% better. I haven't thought about anything else for two weeks. Anyway.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Drug use, and Sexual harassment

lennie_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Did i understand Exy? No
Did i like the characters? I honestly don't know
Could i put it down? Also No

Something about this book dug its murderous lil fingers into my brain. 

Think Haikyuu meets the Yakuza. 

And for the love of god check the trigger warnings before reading this book because wow. 

There are a lot of slurs used in the book, a lot of terrible things (past and present) that happen, a confusing made up sport and some very damaged and toxic characters but idk, something about it just makes me want to delve deeper into the story and characters. 

I'm genuinely not sure of my rating for this and there were parts that were very uncomfortable for me to read.

CW: murder, physical abuse, child abuse, death, overdose, drug use, drug abuse, spiking, rape joke, use of the r slur and the f slur, death of a parent, burning a corpse, homophobia, violence, addiction, blood, injury, toxic relationship, mental illness, 
state mandated drug use (this one is absolutely bizarre). 
And probably more tbh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual harassment

Minor: Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Ableism

spacekitty_77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Violence, Torture, Child abuse, and Abandonment

rafacolog's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Murder, Torture, and Bullying

shivani_reads's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I'm not into sports AT ALL, and don't really care for mafia stories either, so I'm really not sure how I got here. But I already know I don't want to leave... 

I read this within 24 hours and went straight on to the sequel. And no, I couldn't tell you why. Seriously. 

This book is unhinged. The characters should all be in therapy, on a psych ward or in prison, there's literally no in-between.

The plot is outrageous and unrealistic on multiple levels, and boy is there some problematic stuff in here 😬 

...And yet I could not put this down. 

These broken young people and the DRAMA of it all. I have absolutely no clue what this sport is supposed to be that their lives all revolve around - I'm just here for these messy, fucked up dudes (and especially whatever the hell seems to be brewing between Neil and Andrew 👀)

This felt like an anime in all the best and worst ways. It's edgy, it's cringey, and it's objectively pretty bad in places... But I cannot get enough of it. 

Do I recommend it? Absolutely not. But is it a new guilty pleasure that I'm about to make my whole personality? 100%.

[If you do venture into this chaos, PLEASE check the trigger warnings, because it is A LOT.]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder