Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis

4 reviews

_doze_'s review

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Grief, Gore, Mental illness, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Antisemitism, Self harm, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual violence

moonspren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Eating disorder, Grief, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

kharlan3's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Racism, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Eating disorder, Confinement, Blood, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Alcoholism

Minor: Alcohol

slimy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A wildly different book in both tone and purpose from the first of this series. Truly they feel like night and day. Raises some of the same types of questions as the first in regards to humanity and our place in the universe. In honesty, I much preferred the first book. This second lacks a lot of the witty humor that made the first approachable while still feeling like a true sci-fi novel. It does however carry the extremely well-researched and thoughtful construction of worlds, both ours (as in America, 2008) and alien.  

We get a second perspective in this book with the addition of Kaveh, who begins helping our main character Cora. 
Kaveh's perspective is hideous and nauseating. He’s often lusting after Cora in strange and uncomfortable language, fully acknowledging  the inappropriate nature of his relationship with her and deciding to continue taking sexual and manipulative advantage of her anyway. He enjoys increasing her dependency on him. He does not take her mental illness seriously, and actually uses it to push for sex. I read one scene in particular as straight up rape. I could not empathize with his character after that point, and am not sure why exactly the choice to make him do that was made. That is really the only glaring issue I had with this book, but it is a huge deal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness