Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

La campana de cristal, by Sylvia Plath

87 reviews

bossesbooks's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

aleksanski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Gore, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Body shaming, Blood, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Grief, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

maferbriz's review against another edition

dark sad 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

2.5

Why is no one talking about the blatant racism in this?? I thought I was being unreasonable being disgusted by the descriptions of people from different races because no one mentioned it in any of their 5 star reviews of this “masterpiece”. 
This was an almost dnf for me, saved only by my own curiosity of knowing where this character would end up and if it would follow the same author’s demise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Antisemitism, Racism, Blood, Death, and Suicide attempt

joanaramosbarros's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Death, Medical content, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

nimala's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense 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

3.75

as a depressed baddie, there was a lot in this book that made me feel finally seen. however, as a baddie of color, i despised the racist remarks and that took away from my enjoyment of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Suicide attempt

dashleyp's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

It's a classic for a reason. I loved the prose, the honesty, and even the potentially unreliable narrator as she strove to make sense of a world steeped in patriarchy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual harassment

sianjkh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

top 10 books that have shaped my being for better or for worse. I've read The Bell Jar twice now, and i have a communal copy i lend out to friends that i don't think will end up in a hospital upon reading it. Esther Greenwood just like me fr fr

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Racism, Medical trauma, and Medical content

blacksnakering's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

There is so much to say about this book that I can’t speak much of it at all. In indescribable ways, it is both hyper relatable, and also mind altering. It follows the downwards mental spiral of the main character, Esther, in a way unlike anything else. To make the mundane seem insane and the chaos of madness so cohesive and understandable is the beauty of Sylvia Plath. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism and Mental illness

headachesince03's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Confinement, Death, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Self harm, Blood, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Vomit

sealreads's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

oh she's just like me fr

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism