Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

16 reviews

ashp's review

challenging dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

This book is if the film “Whiplash” was set in a holistic clean beauty space. The story is jarring and unnerving. An excellent tone of social commentary. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Classism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Body horror, Death, and Eating disorder

ironandsilver's review

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gore, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Animal cruelty

mermaidsherbet's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Gaslighting, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual assault

Minor: Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Animal death, Bullying, Cannibalism, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Classism, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Stalking, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

sophmcgraw's review

dark tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Medical content, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gore, Vomit, Body shaming, Body horror, and Pregnancy

mrsboomreads's review

4.0

This book was genre defying, though horror and a probably most accurate. The writing was tight and smart, with an interesting examination of the lengths individuals will take to defy aging. 

That being said, horror is not my genre and some of the events and descriptions were…horrifying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Confinement, Gore, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Sexual assault, Cannibalism, Car accident, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

cdubiel's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I'm writing a review for Booklist, but Oh. My. God. This book is definitely going to be on my top list for this year. I'm so grateful to my editor for assigning it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse