Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Taming 7 by Chloe Walsh

4 reviews

jehntooch's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Chloe Walsh absolutely breaks our hearts again with Taming 7. We finally get Claire and Gibs story (childhood friends to lovers), find out how not okay Gibsie is, and see Claire step into her own. 
I felt it wrapped up pretty quick and really thought at even 95% that they would get 2 books (like Shannon and Johnny, and Joey and Aoife.)

What kept this from being a 5 star read for me:
1. How everyone lets Liz get away with her behavior and how Shannon kept excusing it by saying things along the line of ‘hurt people hurt people and she’s not a bad person’. Shannon should want to stop abuse in all forms… 
2. Gibsie keeping that secret to himself and letting his stepbrother Mark get away 
3. Hugh appearing to emotionally cheat on Katie with Liz
4. How abruptly it ended without really ending, while setting the stage for another book (focused on Hugh I assume since it was two Lynch books and then it’ll be two Biggs books)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia

aimeereadsss's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This wasn’t my favourite of the series and it pains me to put it less than 4 stars but it is what it is. The story wasn’t what I expected for Claire and Gibsie - they deserved so much more 😭. 

I honestly despise Lizzie now. I never really connected with her but I felt like I needed to know her story. Now I just feel like she’s broken every thought I felt about her. 

Hmm. I found it really hard to rate this one. But I guess 3.75 is where I’m sitting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Toxic friendship

nimsaynadiews's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Self harm, Abandonment, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Death, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Rape, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

andeng's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Blood, Gore, Bullying, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicide, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship