Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow

11 reviews

whatthekatdraggedin's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Graphic: Vomit, Child abuse, Racism, Blood, Classism, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

frantically's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.0

I kept waiting for the "big moment" this kept building up to and it took so long and in the end was just unsatisfying. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a really good job at showing how neutral/non-emotional Farrah was but that just made the whole book SO monotone that I had to force myself to finish listening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Racism

Moderate: Physical abuse

jojo_'s review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Racism, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Sexual content and Infidelity

catbuechler's review

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

zarap's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I have lot of conflicted feelings about this book - while it's not long by any means, I think it would've been greatly improved by making the first half about half as long. I spent what felt like a very long time being pretty sure I knew what was coming (and I did) and just slogging along with the uncomfortableness of it all while the plot twiddled its thumbs. And yet Morrow does social commentary SO well, and once things picked up around the 65% mark I had a much better time (despite having to skip through one scene because it was too descriptively gory even for me). I was also pretty pleased with how the ending turned out - not perfect, but definitely more satisfying than I'd feared. I nearly dnf'd this several times and I'm glad I didn't. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic friendship, Murder, Gore, and Blood

kstericker's review

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Sexual content

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Child abuse, Racism, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

hayley_magnant's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

1.5

I……I’m sorry, but WHAT did I just read? This book is dark and needs content warnings for blood, gore, violence, and the like. Weak stomachs should skip this book. One thing this story did really well was build tension. I could feel the tension building truly with every page. I thought it was building up to a twist that I had “figured out” about 1/3 of the way in. Kept waiting and waiting and waiting for the twist I thought I had so cleverly figured out. The actual twist was revealed in the last 10 pages and was worlds away from what I had guessed. Which,I mean…good job to the author, I guess? But I still don’t think I fully understand the twist AND it is so outlandish that it totally discredits the rest of the story. I would rather the twist have been the one I thought of myself. The cover of the book is really pretty, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

heymegoh's review

dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Racism

rach1623's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Seventeen year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS—White Girl Spoiled. 

Cherish is given everything about her parents Brianne and Jerry Whitman. 

Farrah’s family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure. Farrah does not like change and always likes to be in control. Farrah is s determined to keep the life she deserves.

Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitmans’ lives and home, her efforts revolve around her best friend, Cherish, the only person she loves, even when she hates her. 

As Farrah starys with the Whitman's she starts to notice stranges things going on with the Whitman's and in their house. 

Farrah starts to suspect their motivations and they might be even more dangerous than her own. 

This book didn't work for me at all.

The book was quite slow to start off but I carried on reading as I wanted to know where the book was heading but in the end the book didn't quite might sense to me and was confusing at times with what the story was meant to be about. Also I couldn't work out what the characters actually motivations were and what was actual real in the book. 

I was quite disappointed as what I read from the blurb the book as was expecting a quite tense thriller but in the end the book to me couldn't quite decide what the story actually wanted to be and nothing was actually really resolved at the end. 

This book just wasn't for me but other readers may enjoy. 

I received a ARC from Edelweiss and the publisher for an objection. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, and Physical abuse