Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

11 reviews

alimxx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.75

To the world she was a formidable force. To me? She was the world

 

DAMN.

To be honest I thought the first 150 pages were a bit boring and I was so close to just taking about a month to read but I'm glad I didn't. The mid-ending is SO SO worth it. If you're a fan of the Warnette relationship then this WILL be the book for you just after some time. 

There isn't much Juliette in the first 100 pages or so just kinda her dissoassociating which was a bit annoying to me one of the reasons for the knocked down rating

 

I found the Anderson stuff and Juliette finding him handsome really weird but in like a good way? As in it was good to know he was discomforted by something and it really highlighted his delirium and psychosis

Warner is Warner in this as usual and I do love the enornity of his love for Juliette as always

though he's a bit out of it I feel like he could've been worse

All in all, found it to be boring at first but definitely the end pulled it through for me. It's worth it I'd say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Violence, Blood, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol

lilareads5678's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Grief

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-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

4.25

If you asked me if I liked this book 300 pages in I would have said no. Honestly this book sucked. Boring and gross and depressing. But Mafi manages to once again make a full recovery in the end. I even cried. I hate to say it but the end was so sweet the whole gross Anderson thing seems less offensive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abandonment, Drug use, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Slavery, Death of parent, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization

bri__'s review

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I don't know how I felt about this book. I liked the flashbacks from Ella to Juliette and how that changed her behaviour. I don't understand why Emmaline wasn't talked about enough? After Oceania she wasn't spoken about again. I would've liked to see more interactions between Adam + James and Kenji + Nazeera. I also don't fully understand why Aaron was still rude to everyone even though he has good relationships with most of them and doesn't have any reason to dislike them. All of the interactions between Juliette and Anderson made me so uncomfortable, especially because she found him attractive. Overall, I sort of struggled to get through it around the mid way point. However, "come back to me, love" killed me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Physical abuse

vibinqvio's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

Imagine me was my least fav of the whole series. I was annoyed when reading the entire time, waiting for something satisfying to happen. And damn, that one scene with Aaron, I was in tears. Thank god it’s fast-paced and i finished it in like 2.5h reading time. A lot happened, and too much.

this whole juliette-affection-to-anderson thingy was pure disgust. i had to distance myself from my book seeing „You’re very handsome, sir“. No Juliette, no. Just no.

. Anyway, the last 100 pages were the best. The thing i don’t get is… Why is there no warner pov for the majority of the book? It would be great to see his thoughts while those events progressed. Kenji, my beloved, annoyed me in this book. I’m sorry to say and think that, but my dude kenji got on my nerves a lot for the certain things he said. i still love him. aaron broke my heart.  That epilogue was adorable and I’m currently reading believe me, which means, i will be leaving the shatter-me universe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, War, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Drug use, Child abuse, and Blood

carloscapy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

Most of the story was a bit confusing and I wasn't really sure what was happening, but overall it was really good. The last page was my favourite out of the whole book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Gun violence

donatio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

This felt like the last hundred pages of a book when there is the final fight, which it was, of course.
It was a good ending to the series but the tension was beginning to wear of before everything ended. Therefor it was nice, but nothing special. 
<spoiler >There were some things I wondered about when I started reading the series which didn't come up anywhere, e. g. what about periods? What about sexual protection and stuff?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Cursing, Gore, Medical content, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

I read this book some weeks ago and can't remember all the tws I wanted to put but one should definitely check the tws in the description of the book.

elyseborrack's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

*No spoilers*

This is by far my favorite book in the shatter me series, it took me a bit longer to read than normal but only because I didn't want the series to end (I still have to read the Believe me novella after this but it's not the same as a full book), over time I completely fell in love with every character in the series and cried because it is now over. They will forever hold a place in my heart and there is nothing I could say to convince you to read this series because I've never experienced books like these before. It is popular for a reason, please read this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Torture, Gore, Blood, Death, Violence, War, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

molly_rose's review

informative medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: Trafficking, Pedophilia, War, Violence, and Torture

jessicaoreads67's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

Don’t really have much of an opinion. It was good but far from the best in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Torture

It’s a bit of a deeper book than the others with a few possible triggers.