Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Muistipoliisi by Yōko Ogawa

39 reviews

clarksamanthab's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

A really interesting concept. I loved the addition of the character’s novel, foreshadowing. But really inconsistent with the disappeared items. Fruit disappears, but later they talk about jam, eat jelly, make metaphors and thoughts relating to fruit. Photos disappear, but the memory police still ask for photo IDs? however, the ending was good. It made sense, it was tragic. I feel like this book and the author have a deep understanding of the feeling of melting away, and that was really well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Domestic abuse

risemini's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death of parent, Death, Sexual assault, Rape, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

lea333's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

ajcham01's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Quick read with with a surreal plot requiring heavy suspension of disbelief. Impossible occurrences drive the plot and are not explained; if you can get on board, the story is an engaging, if foreboding, remark on state surveillance and the resulting self-policing: a new metaphor for the panopticon and what we lose when we submit to it. 

The kind of book where I realized I was about 10 pages from finishing and knew I wouldn’t get the ending I wanted, but the ending worked nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

the main character is a novelist and there is moderate SA within one of the stories she’s writing

britb's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I think this book was over hyped for me and did not live up to my expectations which is not it’s fault. If I went in without ever hearing of it before I would have probably enjoyed it more. 
I think this is a really good book just not my personal style. If you like slower paced books that make you think you should definitely pick it up! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood and Sexual assault

I feel like this isn’t really mentioned a lot in reviews for this book but there is a bit of Stockholm syndrome in the story the main character is writing throughout the book and the kidnapper does sexually assault the main character in that story.

zoe_s16's review against another edition

mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

itsyourpaldave's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

biblio_ione's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Infidelity, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual assault

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

i thought this was such a cool idea for a book and thought it was executed really well. i love any book with found family elements, especially when it involves an older person. the relationships formed and described were the backbone of this story imo. the only thing i struggled with was the ending. it wasn't exactly what i imagined or thought fit well with the story but it wasn't bad. also i really want the author to release a book that fully tells the story that the main character was writing. i loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Police brutality, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, and Sexual content