Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Eighth Girl by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

4 reviews

addythebookbat's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

amberinpieces's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Self harm

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Grief, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Suicide

amatranfer's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

This January I joined a reading group that was exploring books on the topic of mental health, so I was thrilled to get accepted to review this book about a girl with multiple personality disorder and her therapist.

But this wasn't it for me. Very quickly, it became some crazy story in which the girl  and her best friend are trying to dismantel a traficking ring... It felt very slow at parts and I didn't care about the story for much of the book. The big plot twist wasn't expected, but it also wasn't impressive.

The other selling point for me at first was that I thought there would be more exploration of the Asian culture, but this was barely mentioned.

Not for me.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Mental illness

allzen_nochill's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Y'all, I LIKED THIS. It's been a minute since I read a good thriller. I love the idea of a protagonist with DID, so often folks with this disorder are relegated to being villains. I can't say whether this is an accurate portrayal of what living with this disorder is like, but as an outside observer it seems to be careful, researched, and sympathetic. The twists actually surprised me, which is how I always judge a good mystery, and I loved the author's writing style - letting us linger on sentences that needed some marinating & yet punchy where it needed to be. I would love to see more from her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Trafficking, Self harm, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Incest, and Child abuse

Minor: Blood, Drug use, and Drug abuse