Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

13 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Transphobia

I cannot decide if I like/dislike the gender commentary in this story because it flip flops almost as much as Sophie/Agatha/Tedros and whatever-they-have-going on. Occasionally there’s something vaguely transphobic in the narrative that’s countered three seconds later with something unintentionally deep about gender essentialism. Very fun world building but good luck sorting out how you feel about this series.

jessawilson's review against another edition

I thought the series would get better with the themes but I could tell that fat phobia, diet culture, beauty culture, and misogyny were going to continue. Then I had to stop when the author thought it was okay to introduce transphobic themes with making a previous male character be changed back to a woman when princes were made evil. Fuck that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

ieahleen's review against another edition

1.0

The book is written well, it kept me glued to the pages until the end. 

It's just full of misogyny, misandrism, homophobia, fatphobia... I am absolutely not continuing with this series, I can't stand anything in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Pedophilia

lct's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

neko_reads's review against another edition

dnf. i just could not put myself through this, and its kinda sad because I kinda wanted to like it since I used to but no. just no
this book just takes everything the first book worked for (not much) and killed it. the lgbtish relationship? NO we just couldn't be happy with that, there has to be some boy involved
this book just shows the weirdest sexism reversed, homophobic, tasteless book. so the main characters have no character anymore. sophies character is dead, shes just quiet and agatha is TERRIBLE. now her entire world is tedros. Tedros has no character, its terrible.
also the quote "whats a boy? someone who wishes for a girl. whats a girl? someone who wishes for a boy. whats someone who kissed a girl? DEFINITELY A BOY" homophobia if I've ever seen it.
anyway ill shut up about how much I hate this now like IT IS THAT BAD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment

ashleylowry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

rumireads's review against another edition

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying

wren_acorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Loved this. Was super entertaining. However, when I have kids they are not allowed to read this series before they develop critical thinking skills and they will read it with me because the gender stereotyping and heteronormativity in this book is, well, a lot. 
Docking points for being a tad problematic and because it’s not completely perfect, though I found Soman’s writing improved from the first book. Also wtf happened to Agatha. She changed so much from the first book… 
I hear this is commonly thought of as the worst book in the series so I’m excited to see where the story goes from here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Body horror and Homophobia

jaidlyn_7's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Slavery