Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

140 reviews

girthybirthday's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

sarah_hafer's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

lithoerary_atria's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

it's a very heavy book. just go into it keeping in mind all of these.

it was difficult to read. particularly the transcript of the talkshow. i was shaking and had to walk away for a couple if hours before continuing the book.

last month, a horrific incident happened in my city. more so, because in some ways it is connected to me and people like me as a collective. and it hurts to see the conversations & events that happened in real life and HAVE been happening now be so so so universal.

this was a very well written depiction of rape culture that resides in society even today and in many ways, an extremely difficult book to digest. one of my only complaints though would be the lack of voice of the trans man who was also a victim in the book. it just didn't seem fair that the voice of a trans person is the only one that apparently didn't need to be heard.

i read this in physical form as well as in audio and the cast of voice actors actually did a wonderful job. a huge hats off to them. specifically to the voice of jamar sands & ezra fisher. impeccable voice acting on their parts.

all in all, would recommend even if i had a few complaints.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Transphobia, Medical content, and Medical trauma

spookymartinireads's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

check tw forreal

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Excrement

Minor: Pedophilia

americancoco's review against another edition

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

2.5

Many reviews how shocking this book was. I didn’t find it shocking at all. Just a males perspective of sexual assault. I had high hopes and was disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

jilliant's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

Okay, so to start I wanna say I really enjoyed the format of this book and thought it was super interesting. It was paced well in that aspect, and the actions/reactions to the crimes of this book are horrifying. That said, some of the language and poetry aspect really took me out of this, especially when all the mens’ POVs would follow the same style and have no distinguishing character to them. Plus the celebrity tweet portion was ridiculous. Decent quick read, but I don’t think it resonated or made the point it was looking to make.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, and Transphobia

spacebee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Self harm, and Sexual assault

bcale420's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kg18's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death

shedevls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

i am utterly incapable of articulating just how powerful this book is, but it is both a work of art and a work of serious societal importance. 

it is also extremely triggering, so please, for your own sake, check your warnings and do not go into this blind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Deadnaming