Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Skin Privilege by Karin Slaughter

3 reviews

siobhanward's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

1.0

 

I didn't love this book and then really hated the ending... To learn that was how Slaugther chose to wrap up a whole series is what dropped this to a single star. I can't speak for how the rest of the series is, but I'm glad I read this one first - if I'd worked through the whole series and this is how it ended, I would have been livid.

Anyway, this book was typical for Slaughter, but definitely weaker than what I've read from her before. Her penchant for torturing women was a lot less pronounced in this book, so I will give her credit for that, but that was the only redeeming quality. I didn't care much for the characters, there were plot lines that went nowhere and were irrelevant to most of the story and moving through time made the plot hard to follow. I get using time/scene jumps for drama, but in this case, it just made it hard to follow.

I think now that I've gotten a bit more into the crime/thriller genre, especially in terms of series, I'm learning some authors are just not worth reading everything from, and Slaughter might be one of those.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

jackbifrost's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Excrement, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

abbs15norm's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail