Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

A Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende

5 reviews

mysterymom46's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Dementia, War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Minor: Classism, Cancer, and Colonisation

the_clueless_tourist's review

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Medical content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Torture, Xenophobia, and Sexual content

claudia_bow's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Infidelity, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Violence

kierscrivener's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

 I really liked this story, it takes a little bit to follow the treads and years but as we continue it makes a beautiful love story that tells the story of twentieth century Chile.
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexism, and Confinement

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

The history that this book was based on was fascinating, but I think I would have preferred to read a straight-up history book to this work of historical fiction. The characters are all very vaguely drawn and have extremely predictable stories. The reader is always told how the characters feel instead of it being demonstrated in the text, and somehow despite all of the characters’ hardships everything seems to always work out neatly for them so the stakes felt weirdly low.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fatphobia, Grief, Gore, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Dementia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Rape, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Torture, and Xenophobia