Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Hunted by the Sky by Tanaz Bhathena

4 reviews

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual violence and Torture

sabreenareads's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

yvonne_cl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide

decklededgess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

trigger warnings: death of parents, torture, bigotry, abuse, sexual assault, slavery, sex work, misogyny,  violent animal attack

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the cross of mythology and fictionalized fantasy throughout and the use of multiple South Asian languages to create the worldbuilding. I was a bit underwhelmed by the chosen one plot but not so much that it was boring. I have yet to read enough brown chosen one tropes before they get tiresome. I think this book would have been far more enjoyable had the narrator been able to pronounce literally ANY of the non English words INCLUDING the names. She could do only the basic ones and even then they sounded a little off. Publishers if you could be so kind as to find narrators who KNOW PRONUNCIATIONS that would be great. Especially when these books are SET abroad. South Asian American stories are different. American accents are part of diaspora. They are not part of indigenous South Asian stories.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder