Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

510 reviews

fuzzy1999's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

Some interesting  moments, very immersive and insightfu  historical details throughout but very, very long and extremely dark/explicit at points. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

ruinstoroots's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

knottyrissareads's review against another edition

I watched the series, so I thought I’d read the books. I got almost halfway through this and just cannot stand the sexual violence. 
She gets assaulted many times, even by her husband. 
I googled “does the sexual assault in the outlander books end” and found a Reddit thread saying there’s more scenes in the books than in the shows, so I’m out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

sarahburchh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

possibly a little (unintentionally?) homophobic at times (though, it was written in the 90s). but, beautiful writing and world building. dont remember the last time i read a 800+ page book and that quickly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

booksnart2023's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-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: Death, Misogyny, Torture, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, and Sexual harassment

gooddaykelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abortion and Alcohol

fairytales's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

This is a challenging book to rate. I enjoyed most of the characters and the romance but the violence, particularly the sexual violence was both frequent and severe and I found it difficult and upsetting to read

(anything to do with Jonathan Randall in particular, who is one of if not the most  villainous characters I’ve come across in my reading). It’s also challenging to sort out how to apply historical context to these characters and their actions, since both the 1940s and 1740s are not current times. I enjoyed Claire’s personality, though I occasionally found her incongruent or confusing, but I think some of that can be chalked up to the time travel and her changing thoughts around it. I did really enjoy her medical background and innovation without modern medicine. The witch trials were interesting though I wish we had learned more about Geillis Duncan.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Blood and Medical content

mcshib's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Colonisation

steph51581's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

I, for the life of me, will never understand why so many women are obsessed with Jamie Fraser. A character who, not only beats and rapes the fmc, but enjoys it. It was legitimately one of the grossest, most disgusting things I've ever read.

I literally just read a review that said something to the effect of "Can Jamie catch a break? Poor guy!"

Well, he's a wife beater and a rapist so actually this series could only improve after book 1 if he enjoyed some really inventive, torturous death (a personal preference of mine for how a story's villain should be treated), but unfortunately I'm aware that doesn't happen. Also he can just fuck all the way off. 👍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Rape

dklouise021's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Medical trauma

Minor: Incest