Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

13 reviews

niliii's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Rape

staceyinthesticks's review

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Alcohol

dearhi's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

gmamartha's review against another edition

mysterious tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, and Religious bigotry

singalana's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

Ann Cleeves on minulle uusi tuttavuus, en ole aikaisemmin hänen kirjojaan lukenut. Verrattuna esimerkiksi ruotsalaisiin dekkareihin, Lokin huuto etenee verkkaisempaan tahtiin, maalaillen Devonilaisia maisemia, paikkakuntia ja ihmisiä. 

Dekkarisarjan aloituksessa päähenkilö Matthew Venn tutkii rannalta kuolleena löytyneen miehen tapausta. Pian Matthew saa huomata, että hänen on vaikea pitää yksityiselämäänsä erossa tutkimuksista, sillä tapaus liittyy sekä hänen aviomiehensä vetämään Woodyard-keskukseen, että siihen uskonyhteisöön, mistä hän nuorena vanhempiensa harmiksi erosi.

Vaikka kirjassa päästään sukeltamaan hahmojen yksityiselämään, hahmot jäivät jostain syystä hieman etäisiksi. Tapahtumat etenivät verkkaiseen tahtiin, kunnes solmu alkoi aueta. Lukukokemuksena kirja oli miellyttävä, mutta jotain tuntui jäävän puuttumaan. Olisin mielelläni lukenut hieman lisää Matthew’sta ja Jonathanista. Myös lopusta jäi ristiriitainen olo, sillä paikoitellen melkein unohdin lukevani dekkaria, ja kun rikos lopulta paljastui, tuntui se tahraavan rakennetun tunnelman. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

linguisticali's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

Another good mystery (with only fleeting fatphobia). I like the characters and I'm looking forward to the rest of this new series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

msorce's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

Well written but not my cup of tea. It would have been better suited as a 1hr murder mystery tv show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

angelfireeast24's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

thingslucyreads's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

In terms of diversity: the main character is gay and one of the important side characters has Down’s Syndrome, as does a minor side character, and a background character has a different, unnamed disability, but everyone is white except for the cashier at a convenience store, who is South Asian. He’s the only character in the whole book to have his race described.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Homophobia

Some of the characters (most often the parents of disabled characters) say or think things that come off as ableist even though they come from places of concern and love. The ableism is not directly experienced by characters on page, no slurs are used in direct conversation, and the book and plot itself did not seem ableist to me. The homophobia is incredibly mild, and the extent to which Matthew being married to a man is a non-issue, especially to himself, especially in regards to his upbringing, was nothing short of laughable to me, a fellow gay person. It’s not bad, the rep is great, it’s just incredibly obvious where the gaps in Ann Cleeves’ experience in this matter lie. (We learn about Matthew’s early life but at no point does it specify when or how he realised he was gay. He just…fell in love with a man and it was nothing, apparently, even though he’d been raised in an evangelical cult that regarded sodomy as one of the most unforgivable sins. This man definitely should have had some shit to work through about this but somehow he didn’t.)

nerdglasses08's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, and Death of parent