Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

7 reviews

andrewhatesham's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Confinement, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Excrement, and Grief

kimberleydawn's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Dementia, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Cancer

mme_carton's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Suicide, Abandonment, Blood, Chronic illness, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Terminal illness

deetabz's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Excrement, Confinement, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Infertility, Body shaming, and Cancer

Minor: Sexual content, War, Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Drug abuse

marieke17's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

This book is so beautiful. I would recommend it to literally everyone. Reading about a group of woman that escaped a prison not knowing what to expect but still having hope in finding other people. <The way they have so much respect for the dead every time the find a new bunker or when one of them dies. The way this woman decides to follow her dream to keep looking after she’s the only one left.> The way she doesn’t know anything other than what the other women have told her and how she wants to know everything.
This book leaves me in tears, questions and a smile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Body horror, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Confinement, and Body horror

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Excrement

orangeoverload's review

dark inspiring mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

This book is about a women who is kept in a cage with 39 other women under mysterious circumstances. We never get to know why they are there or even where they are. Are they on Earth, or a completely different planet? What is the purpose of them being locked up, kept away from the rest of civilization? We experienced the world through the eyes of our unnamed main character, and I really enjoyed walking beside her as she grew and learnt, and never knew men. This story is wonderful. The landscape was endearing and I enjoying the other female characters too.

The book really delves into what it is to be human. How can you even see yourself as a human when you haven't experienced a typical human life? All you have known is this bunker and the stories told to you by the other women. There was wonder for me in not knowing all of the answers, some sweet bitterness in not understanding. Being able to speculate is part of the magic here, and for anyone wanting to read this book, know that we don't get all of the answers, and there is beauty in that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Confinement

Minor: Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Grief, Blood, Excrement, Abandonment, and Cancer