Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Mordew by Alex Pheby

4 reviews

margog2310's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lissstik's review against another edition

it's just a heaping pile of garbage. the plot is agonizingly slow, which would have been okay by me, if only it wasn't pointless at the same time. absolutely everyone is evil and I don't want to read about the kid being horny for his friend every five pages. the "protagonist is so special" thing is also very much in your face the entire time, despite the fact that other than having magical powers the kid is not special at all. i was very excited for this book, since originally it looked like something I would have liked, but a big no from me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

kiramke's review

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

I checked this out to test the theory that I'd enjoy any story read to me by Kobna. And that did carry me through quite a ways, perhaps too far.  I should have known, it's a giant red flag when every book blurb is about something that doesn't happen until the end - almost as if nothing before then is very interesting.

The writing is all over the place, and it seems like the intent was fantasy but grosser and with more rape threats. There's something about toxic male bullshit that doesn't know it's toxic male bullshit, that thinks it's justified, explainable, sympathetic.  It's boring. 

DNF 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

morganmcdub's review

dark funny mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence