Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

4 reviews

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit and Death of parent

Minor: Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and War

hannah_marie5314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful sad tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Death, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Excrement, and Abandonment

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, and War

yuna's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Reads pretty quickly and the setting is depressingly not too hard to imagine happening. Dystopia isn't really my thing, in part because the tension is constant and uncomfortable. So, this book accomplished that very well. But it also felt like we bounced around a lot since the characters were constantly on the move and didn't get more than a cursory understanding of any one place/thing. Liked Fen a lot, Daniel was kind of ehh.

See this shelved a bunch as YA but it doesn't feel like a YA novel to me. Content warning for assault and rape of a child. Also several instances of casual fatphobia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Fatphobia