Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - Ring (Ring, #1)

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Ring (Ring, #1) by Kōji Suzuki

44 reviews

ammmiiiii's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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evening_person's review against another edition

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challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

One of the most achingly ‘90s pieces of media I have ever consumed. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone who is familiar with the existence of the film, whether or not they have seen it. I would recommend this book to someone who likes unsolvable mysteries and watching bad things happen to bad people.

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jdansereau's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

An interesting story partly ruined by the authors weird choices. Although its pretty common to have casual/random violence against women in books written by Japanese male authors so it tracks I guess.

Also rest in piss Ryuji.

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cheyenne_halud's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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? No

3.5

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janhillary's review against another edition

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Gonna draw the line at bragging about sexually assaulting women

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madbrad22's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-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? N/A

3.0

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inhaledmocha's review against another edition

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Literally a waste of my time.

The main characters "Friend" describes his VIVID recounting of the sexual assault a woman and it goes on for far too long and literally adds nothing to the story. And the main character just ignores is wife's pleas to not let him in the house because she's uncomfortable around him. Like WTF?

And then has the audacity to pick up the plot (Where essentially the movie starts at about 50%) and say okay here's the actual plot now have fun.

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evey_ack's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense

3.0

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novellearts's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

I’m a bit conflicted on this book. I ended up giving it a 4 because is I still found it enjoyable.. but there were parts of the story that I found extremely unnecessary.

Why did the author find it necessary to have the best friend Ryuji admit to raping a girl? And why did Asakawa not do anything about that admission? Not only that but then there’s a second rape at the end with Sadako who turns out to be intersex and is then murdered.

This is one of the rare occurrences where I did enjoy the film more than the book. I missed the possession aspect that the film gave to this story.

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saldre's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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