Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Weyward by Emilia Hart

667 reviews

wildhorses's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent

merylas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

bfair's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement, Vomit, Grief, and Murder

isabelmargetts's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

graco's review against another edition

2.0

Another historical fiction where the writing is just giving nothing. The story was very predictable from the beginning which is not necessary bad if its written a well-crafted, interesting or compelling way, but this was not. It follows three women from one family who all have a unexplained magical affinity with animals and a shared unluckiness for encountering abusive men. I found it boring despite the heavy themes and often graphic imagery of violence, death, abuse and child loss. The men were almost all charicatures of evil and the boilerplate female empowerment message lacked nuance. The way the author handled the characters who chose for/against abortions (there were multiple instances) veered into territory that seemed antithetical to what I thought was the point of the book. I would have prefered more time exploring the nature magic and fewer abuse scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Abortion

Moderate: Death of parent

anisiaguerrero's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

jadams89's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Abortion

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

the_bookish_babee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Miscarriage, Violence, Abortion, and Death of parent

Minor: War

adisiki's review against another edition

3.0

This was fine, honestly very average overall, but a quick read. I thought the writing was good, especially for a debut novel, and I liked how it wove together the three women’s stories even if it was a bit predictable at times. It was definitely super light on the magical realism/witchy aspects, I kind of wanted more from that. As someone who is not a fan of pregnancy in books, this just had a bit too much of it for me to ever enjoy my time with it, and some of the descriptions really got under my skin. It also just started to feel a little overwhelming with the amount of trauma these women went through, like it literally just kept getting progressively worse as the book went on, and all the women in this story went through an absurd amount of trauma and the men depicted were the actual worst examples on the planet. It’s a pet peeve of mine when I feel like authors use trauma as the ONLY plot device and only way to develop their characters (it happens with women and people of color all the time) and I just think there are much better stories to tell and women are so much more than their trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

nicoleol's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent