Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

5 reviews

samanthaleereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Blood, Child death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Violence

Minor: Suicide, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Abortion, and Vomit

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

2.0

I think this would’ve been marginally better if I could read French; it felt like some of the prose was lost to translation. 

That being said, this was super underwhelming & kinda felt like a high schoolers attempt at writing ominous literary horror. Extremely choppy and disorganized with really promising passages every so often. The premise makes the antennae seem much more important than it is, and there is very little horror in this book. why people are recommending this in horror lists is beyond me. even calling it a thriller is tenuous. it’s mostly just depressing & makes less than 200 pages feel endless in a bad way 

not for me. also, this isn’t included in the rating but the ebook formatting was ABYSMAL; not sure who to talk to about that but yeah. did not do the cover or the typeface justice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Abortion and Infidelity

hotkoolaidpotato's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Infertility

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion and Infidelity

angleslist's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Child death, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

elysianbud's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

Very prettily written with some lovely turns of phrase. Eerie atmosphere. Predictable plot, but I think that's the point--it's tragic, you know how it ends because it tells you near the beginning, the interest is how they get to that conclusion. Characters are not nice people at all though, makes it very hard to care about them. 
Short, quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Ableism, Abortion, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, and Medical trauma