Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn

5 reviews

ummali's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

nicmay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Misogyny, Violence, Classism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Murder, and Eating disorder

maple_dove's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

2.5

This book wasn't terrible, but I personally don't think feel satisfied. I felt like Nick suddenly made a 180 at one point in the book. I also can’t easily deal with unlikability in characters which probably affected my experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Ableism, and Blood

Minor: Classism, Adult/minor relationship, and Eating disorder

Verbal abuse (graphic), Underage drinking (graphic), Abusive romantic relationship (graphic), Relationship violence (graphic), Sexual abuse (minor)

regalreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Rape, Medical content, Mental illness, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

harleighc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

If I’m being honest, this is an incredibly written book. It’s just not very loveable. The way Finn paired the journal entries and the book itself kept you hooked and was just very cleverly done.
This is just a tough read to really truly enjoy because it is so dark and the characters are easy to hate.

I did feel like the ending could have been built up more and we shouldn’t have  sympathized with the abuser so quickly ,

but that’s probably my only complaint. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Rape, Suicide, and Violence