Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

5 reviews

littlelizzieborden's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Cancer, Blood, Death of parent, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Violence, Child death, and Dementia

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

asienerbrown's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage

mdavis26's review

5.0

I am not okay after reading this! 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Classism

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

There were passages I read over and over again. This is a story that takes decades to tell, and there was a constant push-pull for me: both to getting it to the conclusion I knew must be coming and to slow it down so that the story would continue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Racism, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Homophobia

juanat77's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Racial slurs, Cancer, Bullying, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Blood, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Murder