Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

9 reviews

karly_ackley's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Car accident, Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Animal death

maggiejayh's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

i wish i could rate this higher. this is so genuinely heartwrenching and BEAUTIFUL and so fucking lovely 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Sexual harassment

florecita_lectora's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death

ari_0504's review

emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

cmriordan's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Grief, Death, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

azyef's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Gore, Death of parent, Death, and Car accident

malloryfitz's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

_lia_reads_'s review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

I really wanted to love this book. But I feel like this is one of those instances where a short book didn’t include enough to fully flesh out the story. I loved the base story of the 3 sisters who were torn apart by the death of the eldest 4th sister. Each one mourns the loss in a different way: one by never leaving the house and losing herself in writing; one by communicating with animals; and one by emulating her older sister. 

One year after their sister’s death, strange things start to happen in the house. This is where the story also takes a strange turn and becomes a ghost story. It was interesting to take a traditional story of grief in this way but it also took away from the sisters. 

In general, I wanted to spend more time with each sister and learn about their lives but with 3 POVs and a book under 300 pages, you don’t get a lot of time spent with any of the characters. 

Reading the author’s note at the end, with all of her sources of inspiration, made me appreciate what she tried to do with this story. However, I think it needed a bit more in its execution. 

TW: abusive relationship; death of a child; alcoholism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child death

bronsonmh's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

 I thought this was such a powerful read about sisterhood and how the bound can never be broken even when there is a time when things are drifting apart. The Torres sisters had each other to look after while living with an abusive type father. Who was controlling and wanted the daughters all to himself. Then one night the eldest daughter Ana accidentally dies when falling down a tree while climbing from her window. Then a year later the sisters can sense Ana is back in the house. Her ghost is haunting them. I love the different points of views from the sisters to piece together their lives and how they are trying to move on from Ana's death. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Violence