Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Gece Yarısı Kütüphanesi by Matt Haig

112 reviews

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

2.0

this book wasnt particularly bad or anything, but it just didnt rly click w/ me.

the midnight library has an intriguing premise, deals w/ interesting themes and ideas; def makes me reflect, and can be inspiring and life-affirming at points. also appreciate how it doesnt end w/ a new romantic prospect that solves all of the main character's problems.

however, i feel like suddenly thrusting nora into various situations w/o any understanding of each life's inner workings isnt the best way to go abt it. the writing's also clunky and the dialogue could even be rly awkward at points, and that becomes annoying after a while. i get why many ppl love this book, but in my opinion it couldve been better executed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Death of parent

em8ly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

Entertaining for sure, but certainly depressing at parts. If not for being a fast paced read, I am not sure it would have been so easy for me ingest.

Happy for the happy ending though of course.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

tessahansen99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-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

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

hannelone's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

badmom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Death of parent

ech18's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

reading_ani's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

1.0

The premise of the book sounded so compelling, I preordered the book months before it got released… only to be terribly disappointed. I think the book could’ve been great, but the author took certain decisions in how and why the protagonist ended up where she is and especially the end,

the entire “just be happy with what you have”-schtick,

reaaaaally annoyed and made me angry. Including/dealing with mental health was a pretty obvious thing to be playing a part in here, but in my personal opinion, the author didn’t deal with the subject well enough. It’s a tricky subject and the “solution”/resolution to it all at the end of the book was just an utter disappointment. It was the typical solution society likes to preach 24/7, showing just how much they DON’T understand what certain mental health problems actually are and how they look and feel like.

And especially that someone who’s suicidal and/or depressed isn’t suddenly going to be “healthy” and “cured” and “normal” again, just because they had a near death experience.

I obviously know this book is fiction, but in my eyes, this book is sending just too many wrong messages to its readers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

a2_rache11's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Finally got around to reading this and kicking myself for waiting.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Too straightforwardly corny for me and emotionally manipulative the way it

kills people off in the AUs via butterfly effect.

But the short chapters are like crack for my bad attention span brain, I'll give it that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, Blood, and Pregnancy

silvani's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Very similar to "It's A Wonderful Life." Regrets were a major focus of the story and I can't say that resonated with me much, but it was a well written book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse and Emotional abuse