Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Yerba Buena: A Novel by Nina LaCour

41 reviews

laurendubs's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Rape

pale_faced_fear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

kbea88's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A love letter to Los Angeles and to figuring out who you are and what you want. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Death, Rape, and Death of parent

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

Not sure this is my thing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

caitlynva's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A wonderful book where two women’s separate stories come together as one over a shared location. Each comes with their own struggles and complex issues that leads you to never take a “side” throughout the book. Beautifully written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

5.0

Really enjoyed, but the beginning was a bit much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

khaleesimod93's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Reading the blurb and looking at the cover, I expected a romance. It ended up being so much more and not all in a good way. The story had no purpose. It meandered and wandered. It's kind of like when you are daydreaming. It wasn't bad, just not at all expected. There were a lot of dark themes throughout the book that weren't at all mentioned anywhere. And I really wish they would have. It's a mix of so many different genres, but it works for the story. I liked both characters separately. Them together didn't mesh well for me at least. I wish, instead of writing about both characters, the author would have chosen just one. Sara was a real inspiration. Her hurt. Her past. And all her trauma. She eventually learned to heal from it. I'm not sure what the point of Emilie's story is, but I did love her figuring out what she wanted out of her life. I felt there were things unfinished when I got to the end. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, and Rape

ecn's review against another edition

Too much abuse (and so many types)  way too early on

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Sexual harassment

risemini's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

andreadelo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Simple yet reflective. I picked this up expecting mainly a romance but found two stories about the difficulties of finding oneself. I liked the bittersweet moral but sometimes the book felt a bit too on the nose with its metaphors, sometimes explaining  instead of describing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail