Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

6 reviews

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Men are bad and boorish and everything evil under the sun unless they can do their jobs as studs and pleasure women. Women are mystical beings whose biggest accomplishments are bleeding and birthing because that's the real meaning of Womahood™. A simplification of this wack ass retelling. I don't know anything of the author and I'm not a super expert on the Old Testament story (I did see José do Egito, a Brazilian biblical tv series/telenovela about Joseph's story lol) but I can tell there were choices made here that were just to shit on the tradition just bc she could but were kinda sus. That's within her artistic license sure but there was no profound commentary, just a very New Age, White Feminist take that hasn't aged well. There were a few good passages but overall it was a version of glorifying a type of Womanhood™ I really loathe. I only finished it bc it had the keyword in one of my reading challenges and was intrigued how she'd tackle some other points of the story but it was unbearable to say the least. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Blood, Death, Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, and Slavery

kateausten's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Suicide

kaylamoran's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad slow-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

3.5

I almost DNF's this but I'm so glad I didn't.  That ending... damn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

breadwitchery's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Incest, Death of parent, and Infertility

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Cursing, Vomit, Ableism, Abortion, Pedophilia, and Dementia

sashafriese's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

jpwoodruff's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault