Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

4 reviews

culpeppper's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This offers really significant insights into human desire, necessity, confidence,  resilience, generosity, and empathy, or the lack of those things. Each of the stories are engaging in their own way, building of the narrative of the previous section to bolster it, and provide affirmation to the stories themes. The art is beautiful, with characters distinct and reflecting their personality when words wouldn't do justice. The storylines are engaging, offering love and reality to each of their plights. The world building is fantastic as well, and the intermissions between stories fill in gaps are fun additions. Really happy this came across my path!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Classism, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Misogyny, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Medical content, and Cancer

Minor: Infertility, Religious bigotry, Drug use, and War

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

Based on the blurb, I thought this book would be "wishes + capitalism." And it is. And it's also "wishes + capitalism + classism + government corruption + colonialism + depression + mental health stigma + religious zealotry + regret + secrets + ... a lot of other incredible things." Shubeik Lubeik has so many layers, I'll be chewing it over for days to come. Plus, the art is wonderful, and there are infographics!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Cancer, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child death, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Police brutality, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Gaslighting, Medical content, Sexism, Ableism, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Transphobia, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Drug use, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Body horror

Graphic: Police corruption Moderate: Saneism, Child marriage

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Chronic illness, Body horror, Child death, Car accident, Grief, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

brogan7's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A wondrous wonderful book.  I read the whole thing without knowing that the title means "Your wish is my command."  It's a book about wishes but it's also a book about gender and class power dynamics, mental health distress, family, ethics, colonisation, and storytelling.  I loved the book and then, I loved it more.  The illustrations are outstanding, the stories compelling, the characters are believable and endearing and tragic and funny.  I love that it's so Egyptian and so cosmopolitan, that people of different generations within a family look like each other, that the same person at different ages looks like themselves...
This is what a book should be: it takes you away, and it takes you within, and at several points, it goes through your heart like an arrow.  That is what life is like, you say to yourself.  She gets it so right.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, War, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Colonisation