Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

4 reviews

katakarin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Blood

zarhara's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Addiction, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Slavery, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Cannibalism, and Hate crime

shoshin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

I enjoyed the book a great deal, liked its exploration of the nature of the self, and found some of what it did very intriguing (space whales that communicate through their barnacles!) but I thought it dragged in places and wanted parts of its universe to be better developed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Kidnapping, Self harm, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Blood, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity

lethalballet's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse