Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Die geheime Geschichte by Donna Tartt

303 reviews

catherinebullions's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, and Antisemitism

biab00's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Classism, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Incest, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Murder, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Addiction, Homophobia, and Suicide

daybreakreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

The first 90% of this book: overhyped, poorly researched (details that were factually inaccurate; Plano, CA is two hours’ driving distance from Disneyland, he couldn’t have seen the fireworks from his house, one of the characters reads a book written by the “Persians” which was in Arabic — odd for a book so focused on foreign language, etc.), rather pretentious.

Last 10%: twist ending was interesting, and I enjoyed it, but it didn’t justify the 22 hours I spent listening to the audiobook. The author was the voice actor, and the voice she used for Bunny was incredibly irritating.

Interesting notes:
- this is a slow burn. Doesn’t pick up at all until ~50%. The writing style is intriguing
- none of the characters (even side ones) are “good guys”
- there’s a ton of random racist/antisemetic/homophobic comments, but they’re usually a one-off thing. The only exception to this was 3/4 of the way through there was a recurring trend of anti-Arab things that served no point to the overall plot whatsoever. It was odd for a book written in the 90s. There was a fake country full of “jihadist terrorists” mentioned several times, “sand [n word]” used against a Palestinian (who was only written for a brief moment in which he was yelling as the “angry Arab man” stereotype, “Arab” and “Arabic” were used incorrectly, general xenophobic remarks, etc. And then it just randomly stopped. 

As a Muslim the last thing just came across a bit ridiculous more than anything. I didn’t see the relevance, or the reason to focus significantly more on that than the other marginalized groups.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Death, Incest, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Self harm, Mental illness, Bullying, Xenophobia, Murder, Child death, Alcoholism, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, War, and Antisemitism

schorlett's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Addiction, Death, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual violence, Stalking, Car accident, Classism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexism, Rape, Misogyny, and Vomit

alyx7564's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Blood, Classism, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Bullying, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Incest, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

boba_day_'s review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Cursing

Minor: Rape, Racism, and Racial slurs

tea_kettle's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Incest, Alcohol, Drug use, Gun violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Misogyny, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Eating disorder, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual content, Animal death, and Antisemitism

samwitchslay's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s a very intense read. The beginning is a little bit slow, but that kind of gets you used to the characters and the life they live. Then you learn some stuff and you feel conflicted about the characters and it all happens pretty fast. Or it at-least feels fast as it gets crazy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Rape

lavendar_fr0g's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The first half was great, I was excitedly trying to see what’ll happen next. But after the actual murder, the book went all over the place. It was confusing, all over the place and wasn’t as fun to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Incest, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Drug abuse

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Mental illness, Classism, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Medical content, and Medical trauma

gadeusta's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Murder, Suicide, and Suicide attempt