Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

10 reviews

fri3d_kai's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This book kinda hurt my soul and I almost cried on the tube, but I couldn't put it down so...

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

coolfoolmoon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

Very respectful of people with different minds. Very kind. Very well reseaeched into the intersections of people's lives and how their mental illnesses or impairities can / may be affected by outside factors. Very very, very real, living, loving book. 🥰 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Confinement, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, and Pandemic/Epidemic

hail_archangel's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Bullying, Rape, and Blood

knupselmaus's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape

funktious's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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

Amazing book. Absolutely loved it. I wanted to climb into the pages and give Annabelle a hug. A must read for those who loves books and stories and the potentiality of libraries and blank pages. Although I must now go and apologise to the books on my TBR shelves for leaving them there so long.

A small note of warning for Vocational Awe re librarianship though. As a librarian I feel duty bound to point out that we aren’t all left wing activists, there’s plenty of right wing librarians too that you wouldn’t necessarily know by looking at them and there’s also plenty of curmudgeonly arses in the profession. Like all professions, we contain multitudes. And yes, some of them are amazing bad ass women, but they’d be amazing bad ass women whatever job title they had. And the lack of respect and funding, plus constant attacks from the government / public will eventually break a lot of those women and it won’t be their fault if they stop going above and beyond for their users. Libraries are amazing, librarians are just people, and they both need your support. The end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Rape

willows's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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? No

3.75

 That was absolutely bonkers and had very memorable characters. Literally wack, it's been weeks and I still think about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Police brutality

qqjj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

ukki's review against another edition

• 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Medical content

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Police brutality

odyssia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Rape, Self harm, Police brutality, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse and Mass/school shootings