Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Under the Dome, by Stephen King

30 reviews

oxygen's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Car accident, Suicide, Death, Sexual assault, Murder, Death of parent, and Rape

Off screen necrophilia.

whatsjessreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Rape, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Child death, and Gun violence

sydfreeman's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Heads up: this one has frequent and graphic sexual assault scenes involving women and police. Not a surprise in a King novel, but it was more than I expected going into it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Animal death, Sexism, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

lantheaume's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I really enjoyed reading this book. King's character development, espcially through dialog, shines here.
It's a page turner for 1,000 pages - which is impressive.
Beware - it's a heavy book! :-)

Not a plot spoiler below, but wanted to make sure folks opted in to see it by choice.

Spoiler

book is a great read but the ending was a let down for me after 1,000 pages. I'd give it a 4 to 4.5 for the first 900 pages and a 3 for the last 100. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Drug use, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Drug abuse, Rape, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child death

This is about how messed up things can get. Think lord of the flies. Extremely well done but there's a lot of trigger warnings in this book,

anoble17's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, Child death, Blood, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexism and Self harm

allison1316's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Gore, Drug use, Sexual violence, Animal death, Self harm, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Death, Rape, Murder, Car accident, Blood, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

nichole_of_numenor's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

4.25

One of the things I love about King's works, especially the later ones, is you never know what you're going to get. He has been boxed into the "horror" genre for things like "It" and "Pet Sematary" but I'm not sure if I could place Under the Dome there. If anything, I could be considered apocalyptic, albeit on a small scale.

This is a character study on steroids. Not just for the sheer volume of characters (around 100?!?!?) but the way the small town being trapped under an impentratable dome accelerated the paths each character was already on. The ultimate character crucible. Trapped in such a finite space, this work is also a commentary about how fast we are accelerating our own ending -- between emissions, thoughtless consumption of resources, and general disregard for an environment that is perhaps more fragile than would seem.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, Car accident, Drug abuse, Suicide, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

setaggu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Murder, and Sexual violence

alsoannabanana's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Child death, Car accident, Bullying, Animal death, Death of parent, Addiction, Violence, Murder, Medical content, Drug use, Torture, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Body horror, Blood, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Physical abuse, Gore, Death, and Alcoholism

suzylit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Torture, Sexism, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Excrement, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt