Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani

6 reviews

tetrootz's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexism, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Cannibalism, Medical content, Mental illness, Death of parent, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Murder, Child abuse, Classism, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Stalking, Racism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Blood, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

kokoberry's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Misogyny, and Child abuse

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Violence, and Abandonment

katsbookedout's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.5

My biggest pet peeve with this book is that it doesn’t use quotation marks. Why not??
Anyways, I enjoyed the spin on classic fairytales it, it was interesting and fun to read. Also I love how culturally diverse the characters were! I did a little cheer each time they weren’t defaulted to being white. Plus the ways that aspects of their backgrounds were integrated into the story really added to the reading experience for me.

Here’s my ranking of the short stories:
1) Beauty and the Beast (the “is he rich?” line really sealed the deal for me)
2) Hansel and Gretel (this is a Shakuntala stan account)
3) Rupunzel
4) Peter Pan (this temporarily filled my little hopeless romantic heart, and it was much appreciated)
5) Little Mermaid
6) Snow White
7) Cinderella
8) Jack and the Beanstalk
9) Bluebeard 
10) Sleeping Beauty (I’m still kinda confused about what actually happened in this story)
11) Red Riding Hood (my 14 year old Wattpad reading self really came out here, thinking there was going to be some sort of werewolf romance subplot 🙄. Embarrassing.)
12) Rumpelstiltskin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Animal death, and Child death

sarahaf712's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement, Violence, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Infertility, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

rainerasnic's review

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Murder, Abandonment, and Blood

chloeanderson's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Miscarriage, and Child abuse