Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

40 reviews

niaaaaa's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Classism

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

helena_sp_07's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

paperbirds's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Miscarriage

ntvenessa's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

A moving fictionalisation of Hamnet Shakespeare's life and death, and the grief that haunts his family, particularly, his mother. It is atmospheric and O'Farrell is incredibly skilled to breathe life into the scant historical details that survive today.

"I am dead:
Thou livest;
... draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story"
Hamlet, Act V, Scene II

Stunning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, and Classism

alomie's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book had some really beautiful moments, and I especially liked the chapter about the flea that travels across oceans and brings the plauge with it.

Otherwise the book was okay, I was bored and ready for it to be over by the end of the book, nothing particularly wrong with it but I could have just done with less of it, by the end I was rushing through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

carizwerg's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

lara_bk's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Bullying and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

lena_and_her_books's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Medical content, and Death of parent

sionnac's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

I loved the writing when it touched on the natural world (and the supernatural). Very sad and the ending was a little strange and unsatisfying. But overall I liked it. Narrator Ell Potter was good, I listened to audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual content