Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

10 reviews

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Rape, Grief, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Alcohol, Murder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Transphobia and Pedophilia

kikifoxbones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Eating disorder

stabilesero's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

Now, I may be biased. I love Fagan's writing. But this little novel is quite frankly, and to fit with the writing style, a fucking masterpiece.

The Panopticon follows Anais and her story of living in the social care system. It made me smile warmly at her friendships with Tash, Shortie and the rest of the Panopticon gang and their times of... Just being kids. Or at least trying to be. 

This book has hard times. There are dark topics, which bluntly, need to be covered because they are very real and very true for a lot of individuals who are care experienced. Well done Fagan; someone had to tell the stories that nobody wants to hear, and you did it in a way that left me astonished. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Drug use, Addiction, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal cruelty

mathsim's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, and Sexual violence

viiemzee's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I went into this book expecting it to be so much more than it ended up being. I feel like something is missing from it. I just couldn't get into it, even though I finished it. I will definitely not be reading this again. 

If you like stream of consciousness and books on the line of HBO's 'Euphoria' then you'd probably enjoy it. Mostly, though, it's just really sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

egmamaril's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Ableism

angel_kiiss's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

One hell of a list of trigger warnings but one hell of a book. Vive la revolución 

“I - begin today.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Rape, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

icecreamemperor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

Really loved this book, which delivers that genuine, careening teenage energy/experience — and then places it in a genuinely messed up world that has no interest in protecting anyone. It's a scary and stressful and emotional combination, especially because the book succeeds in making the world seem real and continuous in a way that most books aren't: it's hard to explain the feeling, but it's like... in this book, there is a strong sense that the world continues beyond the borders of the characters and the story — and not in some vague worldbuild-y way, but in as detailed and specific a way as the part of the world we're seeing. The contours of the story and the characters do not have clear edges; every element that is included doesn't feel like it was included at the deliberate convenience of the author, but simply because it was really there. And what happens to the characters feels the same way — unpredictable, uncertain, and really happening in a way that does not feel true in many books (even very good books.)
All or most of this is to the credit of the main character's voice — maybe it's because I've been reading too much genre fiction and semi-fictional-biography lately, but it has been awhile since I read a book with a real, in-your-face narrative voice, complete with initially-frustrating dialect transcriptions.
Full of aliveness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Self harm

cripreadsedinburgh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Violence

celiaka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, and Self harm

Minor: Murder