Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

8 reviews

frances_frances's review

dark emotional hopeful 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

The prose was so sharp and the unnamed narrator was complex and believable. And the way intergenerational trauma was dealt with was interesting. The pacing was a bit uneven for me. The first half really flowed and the second half wasn't as tight. As an aside, I don't think I'm super into coming of age story lines. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

siriface's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

noshinbean's review

dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Hate crime, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

leogl's review

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit, Violence, Hate crime, Child abuse, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Lesbophobia, Rape, Death, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Genocide, Eating disorder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Abortion, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, and Pedophilia

whimsy_and_rigor's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Shoah grief (the grief one feels from trauma inflicted on ancestors) was an interesting idea. The last 15 pages rescued this from being 3 stars because it brought a number of things together-the sister, the future, the independence.

Interesting in its work with Eastern Europeans, which is not a group I typically encounter in literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Child abuse

circlebeing's review

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Miscarriage, and Drug abuse

nichole_of_numenor's review

dark reflective 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

4.25

More to come later but my initial thoughts after just finishing moments ago:

I was engrossed by this story of addiction, sobriety, and healing. In each of those things, the author layered more. Addiction to the obvious (drugs) and also to people. Addiction to those toxic and those healing. Sobriety from all of that. Healing on a personal level from childhood and adult traumas while at that same time healing from cultural and societal traumas. Or at least trying to and finding a way to navigate through them to a kind of broken peace.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual content

julietealy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Antisemitism

Minor: Death and War