Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

28 reviews

teo_rodas's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Infertility, Self harm, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

keesreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content

signediza's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

caidyn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.0

This is a hard book. I connected with this book in many ways. For one, I had a sister who had, we think, uterine cancer. She died from it. I also had a complex and more estranged relationship with that same sister. So, I really got this book. It's definitely for older teens with the topics it deals with and navigating the adult world. But, it's a very good book and I'm extremely glad I picked it up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Vomit

natkimko's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

sabrinarenee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

While I enjoyed the book in the end, I don't know that I could recommend it. It was painful. No one is a good person, and there's a LOT of trauma within all of the relationships. The story was captivating enough for me to want to finish it, and the ending redeems it for me, but it was definitely a hard read. Also wasn't a fan of the NYC idolatry - very cringey in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

thenovelbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.5

Just because this book is classified as YA doesn't mean it can't be read by anyone of any age.
This has some serious topics that can be triggering to some- eating disorders, cancer, asian racism/bullying, general high school bullying.
In some things the bond between sisters is so strong that you would literally be the other sister just to help them, even if they feel it's their filial duty to look after you instead.
Yolk is a well written story that draws you into the sister's relationship, their family and their messed up lives in a big city away from their parents.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Bullying, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Racism, and Racial slurs

Minor: Infertility

kendrabetweenthelines's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Cancer, Emotional abuse, and Death