Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All by Candace Fleming, Stephanie Hemphill, Deborah Hopkinson, M.T. Anderson, Linda Sue Park, Jennifer Donnelly, Lisa Ann Sandell

4 reviews

allisonmenck's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Body horror, Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, and Cancer

Minor: Body shaming

layla_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.5

why does henry VIII have so much rizz 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, and Death

ka_ke's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

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

3.5

I’m torn. I loved learning more about the six, but I feel like this was a very meh way of going about it. For such incredible cover art, I feel it would have been better if the content hadn’t been diary entries, and instead embraced these queens as actual people and had a little more action. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Infertility, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexism

nitya's review against another edition

dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

3.0

Read for MLIS elective

I am super thankful this has a glossary and timeline since I kept getting confused. Why are the English so boring and predictable with names BE MORE ORIGINAL!!!!!!

Also this made me more hyped to see SIX ❤️

Content warning: period typical misogyny and sexism, murder (beheadings), religious themes, miscarriages/stillborn deaths

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Miscarriage, Child death, Death, Grief, Misogyny, and Infidelity

Moderate: Murder and Violence