Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

4 reviews

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

toastgrl's review against another edition

This book is too sleazy for me, as I get older I don’t have an interest in this kind of stuff anymore. It was just wayyy too much. The plot is also def misleading, it seemed more like a thriller but the book really has nothing to do with her missing sister besides the fact that the MC grows from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, and Classism

sydneyl23's review

dark reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Self harm, Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

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