Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

63 reviews

deshanejt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.5

Top notch thriller... Genuinely. Some thing I could have lived without were all the fat-phobic, ageist and sexist remarks; The overly redundant obsession with reminding the reader "men suck/women suck". 

Nick and Amy were genuinely raw and unfiltered, both awful people in their own respects- yet I found unnecessary observations made about people's bodies..... On one hand it did help grind home your loathing for Nick and Amy, but c'mon. The descriptions were a little borderline and niche for my taste, which is sus if you ask me. 🤔

So much of this book centered around the internal monologue of someone trying to convince the reader why the opposite gender is trash... After the first couple hundred pages of that- we get it, the characters are sexist a**holes, now you're beating a dead horse.

At any rate, a stellar plot/storyline, just a little too much humdrum for me. 😅 Oddly enough, I would still recommend it. 🥴🤷🏻‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, and Abortion

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

This book is vicious. I adore how you never truly like or trust Nick and Amy. You always feel that there is something we as an audience dont know. I mean I can't help but root for Amy as a girls girl but both Nick and Amy are hardcore narcissistic sociopaths. They both truly believe that they're in the right and the other deserves death or jail time. Its amazing how Flynn makes both Dunnes people you hope make it out and people you hope go to prison. I just wish it was formatted a little more comprehensively. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tarahux's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was brilliant. It took me a bit to read because I’ve been busy, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Even by the time I found out what actually happened, I was still questioning the narratives. Flynn did such a good job at making the characters seem just trustworthy enough while also making you question everything. I thought the writing was brilliant, the plot was planned so well, and the descriptions were also written beautifully. 

The only thing I will say is PLEASE check the trigger warnings on this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexism, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage and Physical abuse

hatchtag's review against another edition

I could already tell where it was going, not bad writing but I think just cultural awareness of the story/spoilers. The pacing started to feel a bit slow, figured it would pick up but wasn't feeling it. Most of all...I absolutely hated the characters. I know they are meant to be hateable so good writing (?) But especially on audiobook - and especially all the aggressive "b*tch b*tch b*tch"s from Nick's dad and Nick...it was too much and got harder to stomach than I anticipated. I don't know where the story could have gone that would have pulled me back in and made me glad I finished...but, I did like the author's style. Not the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Sexism, Dementia, and Alcohol

Minor: Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Graphic misogyny,

sonjaswanson's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I will be thinking about this book for a while. I saw the movie in theaters and remember all the feelings I had then. I feel the movie is very accurate to the book. The whole time I was thinking “I wish I could read this blindly” because I know these plot twists would be so good. I love the unreliable narrators. I love super flawed characters. I love the satire and critique for men/women dynamics, true crime in media, and so much more. There is so much to analyze I wish I was reading this with somebody to talk it out. Amazing book, can’t wait to read more from the author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Medical content

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Classism

hannahmg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

2.0

 0/1 overall
1/2 writing/structure/character creation
1/2 enjoyment

I would not recommend this book.

Overall I did not enjoy this book, the first 250 page were not needed and were poorly written, the last 50 pages were as bad as the first part of the book. I only enjoyed a small snippet of the book. The length of this triller is way to long and unnecessary. I felt like I was reading a first draft of a idea.

The writing was partly smart with good ideas but poorly done, the journal extracts giving us a unreliable pov which was smart, reminded me of Dracula, but this was done in a manner which made it worthless, more dialogue than actually description, this was so unrealistic it was unnecessary to make it seem like a dairy. Nicks pov was closer to a dairy than Amy's own dairy entries. The repetition was unbearable, -yes Nick we get it you have a mistress and she is young, very young, and pretty.
The character creation was immense and well though through, Amy and Nick are both so realistic but fucked up at the same time. This is one of the major reasons it is a two and not a one star review.

I thought there was a lot of unnecessary added details, the level of Misogyny and sexism was not needed and weakly touched on at the end. Specifically the character of Nick's father who has Dementia and becomes extremely misogynistic, with the use of the slur "bitch" in both his speech and Nicks thoughts. Why add this, I just think the book would of been fine without it and it didn't feel like a representation of any sorts but more a tick for the check list and even excusing the behaviour.

I was very disappointed in the trigger warning list i found (Storygraph). Yes it is a thriller, we should expect triggering things but at the end of the day the book should have a page of trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

katerinamckenna's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing and Classism

janewa's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I was already a big fan of the film, so when I started the book I was primed to compare and contrast, but by the time I’d got my teeth into it I had forgot about the film! The framing device that the book uses is great, really sets it apart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Suicide, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

unfinishedduet's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts