Reviews tagging 'Rape'

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

5 reviews

gena10's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

If “it was a different time” was a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Genocide, Cursing, Hate crime, Confinement, Colonisation, Infidelity, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Addiction, Pedophilia, Ableism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Classism

rachelmerrie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

This was so incredibly powerful and necessary. I will absolutely be buying the physical copy to re-absorb and annotate it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, War, Bullying, Child abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Violence, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Murder, Drug abuse, Rape, Death, Racism, Pedophilia, and Hate crime

Minor: Trafficking

bookishmaryrose's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

Masterful storytelling. Beautiful concepts. My biggest critique is the harmful trope that people are “better off dead” than disabled. Really? That’s so harmful and so avoidable in an otherwise gripping, thoughtful, artful story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Racism, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Child abuse, Colonisation, Murder, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Xenophobia

kcarney86's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Child death, Grief, and Racism

Minor: War, Pedophilia, Rape, and Police brutality

apworden's review

adventurous dark hopeful informative inspiring sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death of parent, Murder, Pedophilia, and Police brutality