Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

147 reviews

aducharme4's review against another edition

dark medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer

biobeetle's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body horror and Death

maximea's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

5.0

This book got me out of a reading slump. American psycho meet the art scene.
A powerful exploration of gender roles, consent and sexuality.
This book was disturbing, gruesome and shockingly hilarious.


 "I wonder what the fuck I have to do for people to recognize me as a threat, you know? It's like... am I even doing this shit? Have I even fucking done anything?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcohol

sunfloweronmylap's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit

carojust's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I keep saying I won't read more books like this, and I end up only reading books like this -- model-like waif girls who stumble through drugs, alcohol, vomiting (so much vomiting), questionable sex, and with smeared mascara and broken faces, always stare in the mirror to see how relentlessly beautiful they are. 

See: The Guest by Emma Cline, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon

What redeems "Boy Parts" from this tiring blueprint is the Gen Z sense of humor that gives the unreliable narrator, Irina, some personality. She's self-aware, albeit narcissistic, damaged, abusive and horrible, and going through her mental circus with her is incredibly entertaining and honestly thrilling. Eliza Clark gives structure and purpose to the mania, and her general commentary on pretty privilege, consent, sexual violence, and women's shift in power, is really well done. 

I recommend this if you're okay with hateable and gross characters, graphic content, and moral ambiguity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mcgm12345's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

komiification's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

5.0

This was genuinely so fucking wild. It's like a modern American Psycho set around the power imbalance women have. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia

bumblebuss's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

this book was absolutely crazy. i did not realize what i signed up for when i started it and HOLY COW. the plot twist about halfway through had me legitimately screaming "WHAT THE FUCK"  at my kindle for several minutes. loved the tension, intensity, and pacing. i felt like the characterizations and use of an unreliable narrator were done in a way that really elevated the experience of reading, i was completely captivated.  absolutely phenomenal debut novel, a new top recommendation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

kayleani's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

What the actual fuck did i just read? What was the plot of the book here? What are we talking about here? Why is it written so poorly? I cant get over "as the kids say, woke". I feel like you're going to be a best selling author, at least use proper grammar or have at least a plot? Worst book I have read so far. It's also tetering on the edge of racist and has waaayyy too much sexual assault in it. I did not like reading from the point of view of someone who was basically a r*pist. It felt like the loophole to not break that line for the author was to add "and then i asked if he was ok". So uncomfy and so confusing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Sexual harassment

haleybooks0318's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail