Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

7 reviews

ciara_bone45's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

As all of Yanagihara's work, this is beautifully written composition about a terrible, stomach-turning series of events. This book was truly upsetting, and I will be digesting it for a long, long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Colonisation, Racism, Rape, Abandonment, and Child abuse

sammysloth's review

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Genocide, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Sexual violence

micamicami's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Confinement, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Colonisation, Abandonment, and Dementia

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Sexual content, Medical content, and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism

orlagal's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Animal death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Excrement, Fatphobia, Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Gaslighting, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

laughtrack17's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Rape, Suicide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

nickoliver's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

I honestly can't remember the last time a book upset and infuriated and unsettled me this much but still didn't let me go. Jesus Christ. I need to sit with this.
But also, if this book already destroys me like that, what would "A Little Life" do, which is twice as long?

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Moderate: Misogyny and Racism

Minor: Ableism, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

Also CW for the gang rape of a child

summerb's review

challenging dark tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

Minor: Abandonment, Suicide, Medical content, and Excrement