Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

48 reviews

kjofalltrades's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abortion

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Infertility, Torture, Excrement, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Infidelity, and Vomit

hannahheislr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Deportation

schlady's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

A painful, haunting, beautifully-written story of a Palestinian refugee woman's loss, suffering, and heartbreak alongside her strength, resistance, and love. The pace of the book is a steady balance of slow and medium throughout, with lyrical passages of devastating events and details sprinkled with moments of joy and hope. This memoir is technically a work of fiction yet it is very much real and historical, a history of brutal settler colonialism that continues into today. This novel is an important book, one that fights back while dancing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol

deedee63's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

_minucelli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Islamophobia, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Torture, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Colonisation

cosycorvid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

carmentxx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

i am speechless. this book is incredible. i have not read such a beautiful story, so heart wrenching, so heart aching, in such a long time. reading this story has broken my heart and has given me the hope to try and heal it again. free palestine. from the river to the sea. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Colonisation

amluebke's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and Deportation

ameerah27's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and War

clarabelitz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Abortion, and War