Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

24 reviews

milksoup's review

dark

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.0

a collection of stories about women hurt and humiliated by men and women who, more often than not, want to be hurt and humiliated by men. chock-full of violent straight sex - even when the character in focus of the story is in love with another woman, you will read descriptions of her having straight sex. repetitive elements of a twin bond, the cold north, lumberjacks, hunting. the blurb on the back of the polish edition calls it feminist, i dont see anything remotely related to feminism here. reading this felt like reading torture porn - but for women.

if you want to read about women being hurt over and over by men, usually sexually and often willingly, this is a book for you. why anyone would want that thought, i cant imagine

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Self harm, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual harassment, Grief, Emotional abuse, War, Vomit, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Car accident, Blood, Physical abuse, Death, Rape, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Sexism

tomisin's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Grief, Self harm, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

dernichtraucherin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

kia_y_k's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Cursing, Animal death, Child death, Car accident, Classism, Eating disorder, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Violence

megmoore123's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

msales's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

davisbb's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Trafficking, and Vomit

victoriarad's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

1.0

Made it about halfway and I just had to allow myself to call it quits. It was too gruesome, depressing, uncomfortable, every awful topic explored in this dark world we live in.
And I understand how some things are meant to make the reader uncomfortable but sitting there wincing, in pain, having a visceral reaction and feeling just plainly icky is not any kind of reading I want part in. Was it dang good writing? Yes. Effective? Yes. But not my taste at all. Life's too short to suffer through something that makes me sick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

klarastrube's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Child death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

elizabethladd's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse