Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

50 reviews

miamuller's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

ohsnapsabrina93_'s review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Mental illness, and Violence

kylosten's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Pacing was a little weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Child abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Medical content

kermittuesday's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Not my usual fare but it was very well written and captivating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Chronic illness

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Violence, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

lucyyybee's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.5

Super disappointed in this book. The title, reviews and cover art really convinced me this would be good. I can’t imagine someone actually finding this book horrifying or thrilling. Several times I believed the book was finally getting creepy but it always went back to underwhelming. “You’ll be desperate to discuss the ending once you’ve recovered from the shock of it.” WHAT? I was shocked at how boring it was. I was hoping the end would have a major twist or insane explanation of the rest of the book. Don’t judge a book by its cover, this is truly the definition of anticlimactic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Blood, Violence, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

_lars_'s review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Violence, Ableism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abandonment

There was some really uncomfortable

sexual scenes described from a child's perspective & then more sexual scenes acted out by said child

tokki_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Cursing, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Blood

applesodaperson's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

Yes!!!! This book was so entertaining!! It fits into what I like to call the "evil children" subgenre, which The Push by Ashley Audrain also fits into. And are these books particularly realistic? No. But are they entertaining as hell? Absolutely yes. I think books like these are pure entertainment, and I just love hearing about a deranged child doing evil deeds and tormenting their parents. It really does remind me why I never want children. 
Anyways, in this book specifically, I like how it was pretty unclear until the end who Alex was going to side with, and if he was going to believe Suzette about how evil Hanna is. It kept me on the edge of my seat, because of course I was rooting for Suzette to survive and live her best life with Alex. The one thing I didn't like was the line about Hanna saying she wants to marry her dad. Yeah that was just a little too Freudian for me. But other than that I loved it, and thought that the aspect of Hanna not speaking made this book all the more interesting.
Also, I totally imagined Alex as looking like Klare from Fleabag.
Listened to on Libby.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

danyels_denouements's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

hazle_363's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book was compelling but I was anxious the whole time I read it

I didn’t like the open ending, I wanted to have Janna’s brain explored a bit more and a resolve to whether her and her mom would reconcile

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Cursing, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Self harm, Blood, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Grief, Gore, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Body horror