Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

20 reviews

enbyejay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Suicide, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

mybestfriendsarefictional's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Much preffered this one to the first in the series. Excited go read the final book soon!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

violator's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Drug abuse, and Murder

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

So I thought that this was my second time reading this book, but I realized that I had not finished it the first time in ~2014 because towards the end there was content that I found especially disturbing around sexual assault

a female character gets kidnapped by two men and it's implied that she has undergone severe sexual assaults even though details are not described

and one of my friends had recently been sexually assaulted so I found this part of the book too difficult to read at the time. I wrote this first just to warn that there are strong themes of sexual violence / violence against women in this book that were not present in the first and you may have to skip this one or skip specific chapters if you can't read about stuff like that right now. 

That being said, I thought this book was absolutely amazing. Such a unique way to write a sequel and connect it with the first book while expanding on the world so much. I really enjoyed that the book jumped between characters POVs and jumped between time. Loved seeing how characters from this book were related to characters from the first book. 

I really liked the Canadian references. 

All three narrators were very good and this was the first time I'd experienced an audiobook where they made the songs actual songs which I thought was really cool.

the only thing for the songs was I think it would have been better if the songs after year 25 the waterless flood wouldve had no music, just been the guy singing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Torture

allydee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kendallbehr's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

I loved how this tied in with Oryx and Crake while also having the strength to be a standalone. I would say it's a slow burn middle filler to give you a lot of background on Oryx and Crake (they happen sort of concurrently). Atwood again with female main characters and you find out more about the Maddaddam group

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

readinbythesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense

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

4.0

This series blows my mind in the best of ways. I loved Oryx and Crake more than this one but this made me so scared to be a woman in an apocalyptic situation. Can't wait to read the last one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

nabisteph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

backyardjake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Atwood has masterfully fleshed out and woven in two additional perspectives into the world of the waterless flood. Heartbreaking backstories and gut wrenching connections to the first book all end in a conclusion of dismayed happiness. Religous control, sexual domination, surrogate family and belonging, the guilt and madness of the survivor, and the unhealed scars of love. So many juicy parallels to the first book and a refeshing point of view. I may have liked the first book a tad bit more due to Jimmy's more relatable male gaze, but this is a hell of a follow up regardless of narrator. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying, Drug use, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Abandonment