Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

8 reviews

jmurmylo's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

gvstyris's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

Alias Grace is the most ‘Handmaid’s-coded’ Atwood novel I’ve read in a while, and man, I missed it. Lots of research to do now, though 😅 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Sexism

curlewcora's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape

rebeccaquinton's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

alexandramrtin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious medium-paced

4.75

atwood had a big task of turning a fact into fiction, and she nailed it. she added just enough fictitious elements to embellish the history, while still keeping the ambiguity as to the truth of the matter.
the imagery is beautiful. i don’t know if i’m primed to pick up on motifs and ideas in atwood’s work as we went very in depth in handmaid’s tale for IB, but i’m getting it. everything makes sense, everything is so well crafted.
story itself is good. the premise/skeleton of the story is fascinating, especially giving the fact that it really happened! as for the added fictitious details, they felt so real and were so well embedded that the book felt both like accurate reality, or a brilliant work of fiction. 
i would definitely read it again, as i’m sure i missed some details!

only reason i removed 0.25 is because grace marks does not end up with who i was rooting for the whole while but alas

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Alcohol, and Classism

jolibon4e's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

Rarely is there such an unreadable and boring book. To be honest part of it may have been that I had completely different expectations but I am very disappointed. Truly I have no idea why the points of view were constantly changing, why was there so much description of random stuff that did not amount of anything. Like, the only thing I get from the book is that men are inherently sleazy and evil and all women ever do is suffer. Sure, but I don’t need 400 pages of this, there is nothing profound in that? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Rape, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fatphobia

alannah_m's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would! Although it could easily have been a book of half the length I think. I went back and forth with the core mystery throughout the narrative, but I actually spent more time reflecting on Grace's upbringing and her narrative voice, which is really strong. 

Pet Theory for this book: MARY WHITNEY ISN'T REAL

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

rebekalanska's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Violence