Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski

3 reviews

fink1129's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, Self harm, Death, Terminal illness, Animal death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Bullying, Chronic illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Fatphobia, Medical content, Drug use, Abandonment, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

megelizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

I loved the concept behind this, and loved how the story is told in such an interesting, unique way. I really appreciated some of the conversations and themes, and getting to know many of the characters and see some of the relationships between them develop. There are a couple of things that happen in particular that completely broke me and that I will literally never get over, and I love a book that can do that to me.

The main reason that I didn't rate this higher is a character and his name is Vaughn. I detested him with every fibre of my being, and I don't think that was the intention. I also hated and just could not get behind the fact that the other characters, who I generally liked, are seemingly perfectly fine with him being a disgusting creep and getting involved with a barely legal-age woman. The way said woman reacts to something else that he does - and again I generally liked her - was also just to me entirely unbelievable and did ruin the book a little bit for me.

This is definitely an odd book and one that I appreciated and was frustrated by in almost equal measure. I'm not sure it's one I'd necessarily recommend, as it's super dark and messed-up and does have the above disgusting element, though I did still get a lot out of it and have a good reading experience overall. Make of that what you will.

(Also, if you're going to read this, I'd really urge checking the content warnings, as there is a lot going on in this book beyond the obvious theme of suicide.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicide attempt, Rape, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Violence, Murder, Death, Gun violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Domestic abuse

laur312's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Self harm, Suicide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Child abuse