Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote

5 reviews

ukponge's review

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Slavery, Misogyny, Mental illness, Addiction, Grief, Emotional abuse, Violence, Rape, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Murder, Alcoholism, and Animal death

farwareads's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.5

F*ck Gra' Coleman
All my homies hate Gra' Coleman!!

In the author's note, the author says she learned more about her great-grandmother's past that helped her to empathize with her, but I did not feel that way. Her constant and rampant abuse of everyone around her, but especially Bertha, was impossible to justify. 

I loved this book and thought it was so well written and was really inspired by the biomythography concept. I do wish we heard more from Bertha and her siblings towards the end of the book. I really liked Nell and wanted to know where she ended up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Cursing

leniece94's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

This book was such a force. It’s a biomythography, a term created by Audre Lorde that describes this mixture of history, biography and myth. The story unfurls over generations, and the reader  experiences the ups and downs of a traumatized people whose experiences are inextricably linked with violence. Coleman tells this story with an unflinching empathy. She does not make excuses for the violence, for the neglect, for the ways that people who were raised under these conditions continue to pass them on with little reflection. She holds space for the darkness and fallibility, and does so with clear love for her flawed family. This book will stick with me for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

haleyreads32's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Racism

natalieba's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship