Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

62 reviews

currently_introverting's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse

valenhv8's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

ladythana's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Homophobia and Classism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Having the time of my life reading about Blue and the boys. This one's a bit more Ronan centered (as a friend of mine lovingly pointed out), and I loved it because as a Capricorn I obviously have a penchant for showy, snarky and emotionally damaged boys so 10/10 no comments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Gore

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Murder

atomicrobin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

dlsmk's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

marjoleinvanderspoel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The amount this story improved just by adding Ronan's POV is actually outrageous. And of course by adding Kavinsky as a character! (

will be interesting to see how the story holds up without him in the next book...

) I did also like the development of Blue/Adam/Gansey more as I felt it learnt some nuance what with Adam's anger/daddy issues, although I still don't think it's very interesting  (a pre-destined love story is always kinda boring tbh, I mean you know what's going to happen!!) And the bad (?) guy - Mr. Gray - felt a lot more fleshed out and interesting than the one from the previous book, so that was nice. The audio book narration was also great, really excellent voice acting and never let's you forget we're in southern america lol). Hope to see more of a deep dive into adam's character growth in the next book though as I felt his arc was a bit glossed over in this one. Overall a very fun read and I'm glad I stuck with the series after hating the first installment so much lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Grief, Car accident, and Classism

packedjam's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

ronan lynch you will always be famous

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide attempt and Death of parent

fionamatilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

hbocking's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Child abuse