Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Mordew by Alex Pheby

5 reviews

cricketfiend's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

While an epic fantasy, I found it very grim and macabre. The machinations of the world are kept very opaque and mysterious - even from the main character through whose perspective we observe in the third person. The final arc of the book progresses rapidly with a lot of emotional whiplash putting into question previously established trust.

By the way, don't read the description for the second book until you finish this one. It spoils the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexism, Death of parent, and Classism

freyagee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

deebaxreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexism

kiramke's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

I checked this out to test the theory that I'd enjoy any story read to me by Kobna. And that did carry me through quite a ways, perhaps too far.  I should have known, it's a giant red flag when every book blurb is about something that doesn't happen until the end - almost as if nothing before then is very interesting.

The writing is all over the place, and it seems like the intent was fantasy but grosser and with more rape threats. There's something about toxic male bullshit that doesn't know it's toxic male bullshit, that thinks it's justified, explainable, sympathetic.  It's boring. 

DNF 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

unabashed's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexism