Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

4 reviews

thatbookbitch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Torture, Blood, Child abuse, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Outing, Animal cruelty, Child death, Genocide, and Rape

Minor: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Suicide

mxbluet18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.0

Trigger warnings for City of Glass include: homophobia and hate crimes; incest (except not quite), sexual assault, child abuse (recounted),domestic violence recounted, hallucinations,
graphic suicide & self harm recounted; pregnancy & childbirth mentioned; blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking. Physical injuries,
dead bodies and medical content;
forced starvation; grief & loss depiction; deaths, murder & attempted murder; knife violence & stabbing; torture, poisoning, kidnapping and imprisonment; war themes & battle scenes.
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I wasn't really paying a great deal if attention to this book as I was listening to it quite honestly. I've read this one before, and therefore already knew the major plot points before they happened. For the most part there weren't really any surprises in it, except for a few scenes I'd forgotten happened.
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I'm glad I reread it because I do like this series but ultimately I just needed to read it to be able to get on to other books in this series I haven't read yet or don't remember all that well, like The Dark Artifices series.
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As sad as this book might be for someone reading it for the first time, I didn't really feel any kind of emotions towards the events of the book despite knowing those things are sad things to have happened. And I don't know how to feel having finished the 3rd book in the main Mortal Instruments series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Torture, Body horror, Self harm, Grief, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Abandonment, Blood, Homophobia, and Medical content

bellthecat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Medical trauma

TW: Description of coffin birth (past).

sudatot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Homophobia, and Rape