Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Banitka by Anna North

55 reviews

bookishlittleme's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Sort of an Old West Crucible; as described on the back. I've been in quite the reading slump recently and this was the perfect book to get me out of it. It was well paced and action packed. It features a diverse cast of characters centring around queer people and women. Ada is also an incredibly endearing protagonist forced to swiftly grow up. The world is wonderfully built and lets the reader escape to the world of cowboys and outlaws. Definitely worth the read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

horizonous's review against another edition

Reading about misogyny through the window of "you're only a woman if you (can) give birth (to as many children as possible)" and everything regarding pregnancies, miscarriages, abortions in detail makes me deeply uncomfortable. Also, I think I had it with religious bigotry of this type for a while since I read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Misogyny

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Miscarriage, and Rape

themissyreads's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Outing

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual content

Additional TW (Moderate): genital mutilation— is tht not a tag bc body horror?(discussion/description); Character Death (not main character death); The ‘Moderate’ TWs are for like, things that Exist in the world but are (i think) handled very well. The framing is very clear for example: Racism. Racism exists and is an oppressive force to contend with but Our Characters recognize it as Bad and Wrong and won’t give the ‘race mixing’ conversation any credence. So these are topics touched on throughout.

taylorgraves555's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

olivia_piepmeier's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring fast-paced

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

4.0

A troubling world, but North doesn't delve into the unpleasant parts. It felt adventurous with the right amount of challenging to not be disturbing. A fun mix of Wild West with alternative history and gender issues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical trauma

madhunp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Abortion

mals_library's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sarasreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

I don't know, this was much more about infertility than anything else, and the number of times they said "baby Jesus" just about did me in. It seemed like it was going to be a much more fun romp in the wild west, but it is not fun. Don't come here looking for a good time. It seemed to try to address a lot of issues without actually addressing any of them that well? 

Summary:

In a baby OBSESSED old west America adjacent, if you're a woman who can't have babies, you'd better run and join a convent or a gang before they literally hang you as a witch. That's what the main character does, only somewhat successfully. She meets forgettable characters along the way and gets several of them killed or injured. In the end she's going to try and run a practice as a midwife before she gets run out of a new town. Again.

And there, I've saved you the trouble of reading it. Sweet baby Jesus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Rape

ejs2000's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

tak_everlasting's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad tense slow-paced

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

0.25

While the group initially bullied her, I thought she'd eventually be included in the band and it was aiming for a found family direction. It was not. They felt like coworkers at best, annoyed strangers at worst. I honestly felt nothing when they separated, or when they died, because the characters themselves did not care.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual content and Abortion