Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro by Agustina Bazterrica

11 reviews

booksnbrooches's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.0

Based on for my personal enjoyment and rating of these stories, I hated it. 

This book is filled with incomplete stories and trauma porn (specifically of women and children ). I guess if you want a really bad time, go ahead and read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Pedophilia, Death, Cursing, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Murder, Abortion, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Blood, and Animal cruelty

oliviagarby's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Child death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Violence, Dysphoria, Grief, and Murder

smithreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide, and Violence

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Death, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Rape, Medical content, Vomit, Sexism, Pedophilia, Murder, Sexual harassment, Violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Self harm, Mental illness, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gun violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Incest, Grief, Stalking, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The first few stories in this book were so good--creepy and unsettling and just the right amount of wild to put you off-kilter. But I honestly felt like the further into the book I went, the less compelling and less well-written the stories became. A bummer because it started off so well!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

theinkwyrm's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

Dear sweet mercy this took so long to read and was so disappointing. I had really high expectations for this because I enjoyed Tender is the Flesh and still think about it pretty regularly, but this short story collection managed to dash almost every expectation I had in a mostly negative way. While most short story collections are generally uneven, for this one the scale is basically tipped over on its side because of how much the bad outweighs the good. While I did enjoy a couple stories (namely Unamuno’s Boxes, Perfect Symmetry, and The Continuous Equality of the Circumference- which no one will be able to convince me wasn’t inspired by the blueberry girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- with special mention to Candy Pink and Teicher vs. Nietzsche), most of these were truly unbearably boring and over-written. I can’t believe any of these stories won awards. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

kkalicky94's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Death, Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Body horror, Incest, and Violence

itsheyfay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Animal death, and Death

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

Minor: Abortion, Rape, and Sexual assault

oglopfabool's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Rape, Death, Child death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pedophilia

Suicide happens in the story written in 2nd person view, and when the reader shoots themselves, it’s described as a pleasant thing.

ripxw's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Pedophilia

Minor: Rape