Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Weyward by Emilia Hart

190 reviews

d_owens's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

jckrbbt's review

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Abortion

vineyivy's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

This book needed lots of CONTENT WARNINGS at the beginning. It was especially upsetting to me that the author uses , and if I had known that, I wouldn't have read it. It really seems like the author is using it as a way to link the characters, make things hard for them, and create drama. It wasn't handled with care and trauma-recovery in mind.

hematthews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Dementia, Stalking, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and War

mkarina's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

pikkumarja's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

Viiden tähden kirjan ei tarvitse olla minulle täydellinen. Tässäkin kirjassa oli kohtia, joista en pitänyt, mutta kokonaisuudessaan lukukokemus oli todella vaikuttava.

Rakastan tarinoita, joissa sukupolvien kohtalot kietoutuvat yhteen, varsinkin silloin, kun tarina kerrotaan naisista ja naisten näkökulmasta. Tässä vielä luonnon merkitys yhdistettynä sukupolviin vahvoja noitina pidettyjä naisia - ah, olin todella syvällä tarinassa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Death of parent

kpmille2's review

emotional inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

meaghanslibrary's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

3.5

I had been seeing this book everywhere and I probably should have checked the trigger warnings. I highly recommend you do and I wish more people when advertising books did that.

The extremely graphic triggering part of the book doesn’t come in till like a third of the way through.

I liked the switching perspectives especially in the beginning. The chapters were short and there was a nice pace to the book. Toward the middle and end the chapters were long we and started to feel slow. The book was a bit predictable toward the end.

I did like the author’s writing style (although sometimes the dialogue got a bit cheesy) and would consider reading her future works.

What really irked me and took me out of the story is at the end Kate’s abusive ex-husband finds her and instead of immediately calling the police or her friend (which she later admits she should have done) she concocts this more complicated plan to hide in the attic.  I just didn’t understand why she didn’t ask for help earlier in that crisis.  Also I’m not sure why she came down from the attic, I would have phoned for help as the animals were attack Simon. I don’t intend to victim/survivor blame but rather point out that as a reader it took me out of the story because I was thinking “what are you doing?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

clairelisebella's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, and Classism

zgreyz's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I really like how everything connected throughout the book.  I thought i'd be more grossed out by all the bugs but surprisingly it didn't bother me, because of the context i think.  I really liked the writing. very trauma heavy though and have some mixed feelings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Incest, Rape, Abortion, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Blood, Medical trauma, and Car accident

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Death of parent