Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Sandman: Act I by Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs

17 reviews

miratass's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

The narration was amazing. That is about all I enjoyed. I understand it can be difficult to translate a graphic novel into an audiobook, but i found the netflix show adaptation much more entertaining. Some of the subplots were very boring and there was a lot of abuse conveyed on women that I felt was over the top and added for no apparent reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Rape, and Sexual content

trishah05's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Rape, and Violence

noranorasolosolo's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is so amazingly done. The sound design, the voice actors, the music, the narration – I’ve read all of the comics over and over and I cannot say enough good things about this adaptation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Medical content, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Forced institutionalization

salie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death and Grief

sharp_d's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Physical abuse

inameitlater's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Very strong trigger warning for

Spoiler

"Calliope" as the rape scene in it has sound affects. "24 hours" is also tough as the violence has sound effects too. I personally could handle that better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Rape, Animal cruelty, Violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Sexual violence, and Suicide

extinctpanda's review against another edition

Completely unnecessary and over the top sexual violence with NO plot relevance whatsoever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Murder, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Gun violence

Minor: Incest

Spoiler

in the 40% I read there was necrophilia, people fucking until they died and their bodies being explained like that. Someone talking about dreaming about raping their mother. Plenty of other grossness and violence. And finally the point at which I gave up: a woman "removing her maidenhead" by injuring her vagina with a rock

fishrgreat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Torture, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Murder, and Violence

nolimalumsedheroa's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. I rarely am able to stay focused enough to listen to an audio book. The Sandman, with its sound effects and full cast (kind of a modern radio play) managed to not only retain my attention, but also for the first time in years I listened to something at an almost normal speed. I want to know anything and everything about how the mind of Mr. Gaiman works. His story was absolutely enthralling 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Kidnapping, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Medical content, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, Infidelity, and Grief

kou_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Body horror, Violence, Death, and Rape