Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Blankets by Craig Thompson

62 reviews

mxsunflower's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia

nwalley5's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

fluffernutterfriday's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

jambone's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse

mcdougmuffin's review against another edition

inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Raw and powerful. What does it mean to love? Does trauma ever leave? A wonderful mark on blank paper. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

babyfacedoldsoul's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

jade13's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Drug use

Sexual images, minor hemophilia, urination. Religious fanaticism.

chaoticbeing's review

emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

Literally did not need to be as long as it is. Not the best graphic memoir honestly! The story and themes get communicated halfway through and the rest is filler that just repeats the same ideas over and over again.
I got it half off & I’m glad I did because I cannot justify the price and length of this book otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Child abuse

Minor: Excrement

There’s a scene near the beginning that involves two young boys wetting the bed.

thedistortionist's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Sexual content, and Pedophilia

Minor: Homophobia

evanlorant's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

2.0

beautiful commentary on memory, i found that it read like the experience of looking back into one’s own memories, with unexpected moments interrupting and themes being strangely magnified or caricatured, especially in the first half of the book. but i also found it deeply solipsistic. the way thompson speaks about his loved ones turns them into objects, to the point that his remembrances take on the tone of eulogies. 
there were a lot of threads that were dropped and picked back up without much care.

for example, the sexual assault of thompson and his brother

was hinted at in the beginning, made explicit later on, but never discussed outside of its bracketed mentions. Although it echoed throughout the story, its presence in the story merited some reflection. overall it felt like despite its size, the book brought up more themes than it cared to address, let alone resolve. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia

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