Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

6 reviews

brownieboo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, War, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Murder, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Torture

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, and Grief

imrereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

This is less a helpful review, and more an attempt of compiling my feels after what to be is a very comolicated story. I don't know what to say about this book. Honestly I felt like it didn't need to be as long as it was and it took me ages to finish, but I still find myself compelled to read the next one (despite knowing what happens, thanks to the tv series). There is certainly something great about Gabaldon's style of writing that makes me want to continue, despite many aspects of the books not being to my taste. 

I think one of my major issues, and this is absolutely a oersonal preference, is the degree of sexual content. While I often find it good and fitting, I also often find it jarring and takes away from the core of the moment. Does every sex scene need to be explicit? I don't think so, but I guess it is that kind of a book so I can't really complain. I just found that often when the scenes showed up I couldn't fathom how they were horny in that moment. 

This probably is my least favouritr part of the story, it was in the series as well, but I found the first 200 pages really compelling, and likewise the last 200. I guess the issue is that that leaves about 500 pages in the middle that was kind of rocky to me. 

So I don't know. The overall premisenof the stort compells me. Gabaldon has a strong pen in my opinion. What happens next really interests me. I like that the characters are complicated, but a lot of the time I don't really like them. It ebbs and flows. I found that supplimenting my physical copy with the audio was really helpful to get through it, so maybe doing that from the start will lift the next book. Who knows! I just know that this book left of strong, so despite taking 4 months to finish, I want to continue the journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, War, and Torture

suz_n_van's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

infinitegoldenfloors's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, Fatphobia, Grief, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Misogyny

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

juzabatiero's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-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: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

johannab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit