Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

5 reviews

sara_dawn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Physical abuse, Slavery, and Abortion

breathehopebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I truly do not care one iota for

Atretes’s

storyline until the very end, and even then only in context to

Julia and Hadassah.

And i completely forgot about how historically accurate this story is in its details of Roman/Ephesian culture. It was really hard to read at times but it was very thoroughly researched, and we’ll just leave it at that…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gaslighting, Death, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, War, and Antisemitism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, Child death, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

This is Christian fiction; however, it’s meant to be more evangelical, and I would be hesitant to recommend to more reserved readers because of how intense the content is. I would definitely say it’s accurate in its atrocities and horrifying at how nonchalant many of the characters are by their actions and culture, but such was the time period. Stick around for the character growth and the relationship between

Hadassah and Marcus

but if you’re a Christian and find yourself truly upset by the content, then i’d move on.

bones_jackson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

A escrita é muito boa e fluida, nem senti as páginas passando e mal posso esperar pra ler os outros dois da trilogia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Eating disorder, Grief, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Deportation, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Murder, War, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

emily_grace567's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Murder, Slavery, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

ellaalcorn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

The beginning is quite confusing with the different perspectives and it is a little slow getting into it. It feels like the ending didn’t resolve anything that happened in the book and despite me having the impression that it was a Christian romance book, it isn’t really romance and only like 1 character was a Christian and didn’t really end up having the other characters agree. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Racism, and Slavery