Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

11 reviews

jamelchior's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Stalking

zombiezami's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Intersexism

frmeden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Stalking, Child death, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Infertility, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Terminal illness, and Transphobia

gracehunt1's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

racheloddment's review

challenging dark 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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Confinement, Torture, Sexism, Kidnapping, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Homophobia

lexipassno's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

irenemarie's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child death, Murder, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Drug use, Car accident, Grief, Misogyny, Torture, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent, Stalking, and Domestic abuse

thereadingraccoon's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexism, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

niaviolet's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.5

Good mystery with interesting characters. Everyone in the book feels fully-formed, even if you only get their point of view for a couple pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Transphobia, Stalking, and Sexual assault

annegoodreads's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Samantha aka Ruby is a stripper in 1999 at the Lovely Lady.  She’s such an awesome person.  An amazing stepmom, loving girlfriend, adored daughter, and a caring coworker.  She also suffers from a medical condition in which she doesn’t have female hormones, so she takes medications to keep her more feminine qualities.  We get to know a handful of strippers who all have colorful lives which we get to appreciate through the chapters they narrate.  One of the strippers gets killed and another is missing.  In the investigation into the murder and disappearance, we also get to know, Detective Holly Meylin, an investigator whose son died when her husband leaves him in a hot car.  She’s traumatized but keeps going the best she can.  Holly seeks out help from a stripper called Gigi/Georgia.  There are so many suspects due to the less-than-moral characters frequenting the strip club.  One thing I loved about the book was all the different narrators so we have so many perspectives.  While we love Samantha, we also get to know all the different people who are a part of her life.  Samantha’s stepdaughter Rosie will have you wrapped around her little finger.  Then we know the bouncer, club owner, police officers, etc. when you get to the end, you’ll realize it was “real easy” to understand the characters and even the killer.  The characters learn that when you stop, ask questions, and care about others things can be real easy when we help others.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence