Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

13 reviews

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Abortion, Fatphobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

lizzardbeth99's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Abortion, Addiction, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Gore, Grief, Incest, and Kidnapping

purplehulk713's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Beautiful and terrible. Truthful. Firdaus is an indomitable woman, pulling away all of the veils placed over her eyes by the men in her society. El Saadawi wonderfully captures the hypocritical horrors of misogyny and male superiority through the eyes of a prostitute who you will learn is not at all disgraceful, but clever, wise, and honorable enough to realize that all the men in her life, all men who claim to protect women and describe each other as devout and heroic are the most sinful of liars. Firdaus spits upon all of these men, and finally conquers her own fear of repercussion by literally hitting it in the face. She realized the price of herself could never be paid by even the wealthiest man in the world. Read this book and remember that truth is both simple and savage, and that only the brave can acknowledge it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, and Death

noe_mireille's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-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

4.25

KAM takes on a whole new meaning after reading this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Incest, and Domestic abuse

bdilley28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-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? No

4.0

I thought this book was very well written, and the different POVs tied together really well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual content

el219's review

4.5

Disgusting and so essential to read; nawal was such an icon may continue to rest in peace and power

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Child abuse, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion and Death of parent

independent_wombat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Incest

marcellaandherbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative 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

3.0

In 1974 the author visited a prison in Caïro and interviewed several woman interned there. One of them was Firdaus, a woman awaiting her excecution and this is her fictionalised story. 

It tells her story growing up in a society that treated women brutally and how the horrors she faced in life accumulated and forced her to commit the crime that got her the death sentence. 

This is a grim story, she goes from one abusive, exploitive situation to the other, there is no respite. I can't say I enjoyed reading this book. Sometimes when books deal with difficult topics they can still bring some beauty in the writing. This however is just very straightforward, the telling, not showing kind of narrative.

I do however applaud it for it's place in feminist literature. It gives a voice to the many women and girls facing the same monstrosities in a society that was and still is in some parts of the world out to silence them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Incest, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

icarly's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I absolutely LOVED this book. It was another book that I had to read for my English class, but that doesn’t mean that it was a bad read by any means. I read most of this book in one sitting because I was absolutely hooked on the story of Firdaus.

The story was very fast paced, yet not too fast to the point where too much was happening at once. It was done very tastefully and I enjoyed how the central theme stayed consistent throughout, no matter what Firdaus was doing or what situation she found herself in.

I particularly liked how they alluded to the fact that

Spoiler

a free woman and a free prostitute were one in the same due to the fact that neither of them would ever truly be free in a male-dominated society. Firdaus was one of many women who were damned if they did and damned if they didn’t.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and want to go back and annotate it. This is also a book that I think everyone should read because of how genuinely amazing it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Incest and Rape

nicolemillo's review

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Murder

Minor: Incest