Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

5 reviews

senseioftheinternet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent

cle1862's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse

quirkyhelma's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ok… so this was an interesting book. It was definitely a rollercoaster. You had a really important message about mental health. There would be potential to not only use the midlife crisis kinda thing, but you kinda have to use one kind of story. 
The writing was amazing like actually so great. I literally tabed  so many pages. I am not sure if I am going to read it again.  I kinda had a problem relating to the characters. They didn’t speak to me. It was not really inclusive as well. I don’t know if it lives up to the hype but it’s still good

The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had a meaning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

5am's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Addiction, Medical content, and Self harm

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, and Homophobia

msbarnesela's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

This book reminds me of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s ok, but not really my kind of book. I knew how it was going to end from pretty much the second chapter, and I found the plot to be really predictable. I also feel like it in some ways downplays the impact of mental illness, suicide, and depression, in that

Nora decides after experimenting with a lot of different lives that she really does want to live after all, is able to wake herself up from her overdose, and suddenly just gets over her depression, and everyone reconciles with her, and she just decides to be happy. I don’t think real life is ever that simple, and I don’t think depression suddenly becomes manageable just because you choose to be happy. I don’t like when books use suicide as a plot device.

Overall, it just wasn’t the right book for me. It wasn’t what I was looking for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide