Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

187 reviews

l_butterflies777's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense 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

5.0

This was an amazing book that I could barely bring myself to put down with dystopian themes and lines that will pull at your heartstrings. I would definitely recommend reading this! I’m am definitely going to get the series as soon as I have a chance to!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Torture

Minor: War, Violence, and Torture

This author explains everything that the main character is seeing in detail including graphic injuries.

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Physical abuse

romance_books_loveee's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Terminal illness

eggfartz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Confinement, Child death, War, Blood, and Torture

usjdjfnnffm2737's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lizzye33's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Emotional abuse, Body horror, War, Medical content, and Police brutality

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Torture, Child abuse, and Genocide

nyree42's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.5

Fast-paced and exciting. I kind of don't want to get sucked into the entire long series... but I *am* curious about what happens next, so we'll see.
The narration style would have been grating but I hadn't read anything written that way in a long time, so instead of being annoying it helped place me into the character's perspective, as it was meant to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Death, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Sexism

xnolakola's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Child abuse

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I've been putting this series off for so long, but I've finally decided to give in to the hype and see what it was about. And now I'm finished I can understand how this series has garnered intrigue. I think the first book was a nice little introduction to the world and provide just enough level of mystery

Like how can Adam touch Juliette? How can Warner? What does that mean? How do some people in their world have supernatural abilities? Will Juliette see her parents again? What happened to Adam's parents? And Kenji's? How did their world get like this?  And most importantly how does Warner become Juliette's future love interest?

and suspense for the reader to want to continue.  

Also, I don't know if it was because I haven't read fantasy-type books since I was in grade school, but it was kind of hard to visualize some of the settings in their world.

And I can't help but confess that I'm curious about the Aaron Warner hype that has been circling the internet and that has become the centerpiece of this series. Because of what I've been reading so far I couldn't imagine how things could turn around. 

He literally forced himself on her (trying to kiss her). Forcing her to love him and be his secret weapon of destruction. And as of right now, he's trying to kill her. I just can't fathom how he's gonna be her future love interest.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Classism, and Blood

Minor: War, Ableism, Sexual assault, Stalking, Grief, Medical content, and Child abuse

nienora's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

Spoilers, sort of.

It had potential. A girl who can't touch anyone. Do you know how many almost touching but pulling back at the last second scenes we could've had? All the yearning, tension. And we got nothing.
Pretty instantly they realised she can touch main love interest and that's only thing they do for the rest of the book. I didn't think you could make shower scene not hot, but here we are.

Worldbuilding is there, at least at the very beginning and it's never mentioned again. Apparently there was an apocalypse and birds disappeared from the world, that's about it. I guess there wasn't any room left, since the focus was on their dumb love story, even tho they have absolutely no chemistry.

There was about a milion dumb metaphores that made absolutely no sense and were there just to sound smart and deep. – "He's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow "
There's one POV, it's written in first person. We're literally inside of main character's head. Why is there so many crossed out lines? And if you have to write "I'm not insane" about 200 times (I'm not even exaggerating), you probably are. 
I know it's (relatively) old book, but why did anyone ever decided to give positions of power to literal teenagers. And no 19 year old guy would ever use "sweetheart" or "love". 

PS: If you're already going to shoot someone, stop for a second and shoot them in the head one more time, just to be safe. So they won't magically come back from the dead later. 

I can't wait to see how Warner was a good guy all along and Adam was a jerk.  
Sane person wouldn't continue this series..

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child abuse