Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

34 reviews

booksandlattesaddict's review

dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

piiiiiper's review

emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Racism

sheeprustler's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

s_h_a_z_z_a's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

readbookscharlie's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

meraissa_reads's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty

hillzye's review

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Land rights, aboriginal culture, family, respect, domestic/sexual violence, dispossession. 
Impactful read  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Alcohol, Child abuse, Rape, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence

nibs's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

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

4.5

A bit slow to start, but I got hooked from halfway onwards. A chaotic, loving, realistic family working through their own stuff and trying to fight for their land. It really explored intergenerational trauma and shone a light on the parts of history (missions, the violence of settler colonialism) Australia doesn't like to acknowledge. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Pedophilia

ashtronomic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 This book holds nothing back, a raw, dark and brutal perspective on the experiences of Indigenous Australians.

Too Much Lip was difficult to read and that’s a good thing. The characters are disagreeable, but the novel takes readers on a journey to identify the necessity for their often unlikeable personalities. The novel explores the effect that generational trauma continues to have on first nations peoples in Australia and how that impacts families every day. Whilst reading I often found myself inwardly flinching due to uncomfortable situations and actions, so much so, that I was having doubts in the first few chapters. However, as the tale unravels you come to sympathise with the protagonists even as their actions continue to be contentious.

My only negative opinion on this book is that some POV chapters feel out of place and unnecessary.

This book's message is one that is incredibly difficult to convey, but Melissa Lucashenko has done an incredible job of enunciating the issue. If only more white Australians had any interest in experiencing these perspectives.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Racism, Child abuse, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Drug use, and Addiction

wetdirtreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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: Animal cruelty, Racism, Animal death, Colonisation, Grief, Rape, Death, Child abuse, Incest, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Homophobia, Ableism, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Alcoholism, and Misogyny

Minor: Abortion and Schizophrenia/Psychosis