Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Familiars by Stacey Halls

9 reviews

rangerwing75's review against another edition

2.5

The plot wasn’t for me. The only thing I really liked was Alice and Fleetwood’s friendship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

loverrbboy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

bought this years ago purely for the cool cover. would be rated higher but there is a DISTINCT lack of fox patting. not anything i’d usually read, but the 15th century lingo was very cool to read. much horse riding. learned a lot about the rich of England and how those sorts of households are run.

Spoiler

i don’t really understand the climax of the story, where she had some real life version of the Nightmare. was she cursed?? idk i was hoping for more explanation, as well as more happy reuniting and thanking.. maybe a room in the manor for fox girl???

regardless this captivated me more than i expected after putting it off for so long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Medical trauma

Minor: Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

sammie_snk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious

3.75

*Trigger warning for those experienced with pregnancy loss*

Interesting tale of strong women finding friendship and support during an era that is quite unkind to women. Lots of twists and a satisfying yet mysterious conclusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, and Infidelity

Minor: Rape

livlostinstereo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Miscarriage, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Police brutality

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Infidelity

Minor: Rape

kibiiiariii's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, Infertility, Rape, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Child death, Gaslighting, and Animal cruelty

hattiefrankie's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

I found the natural imagery and storyline interlaced with history interesting and enjoyable. However, I found the behaviour and language of the characters not typical of the time period in which the book is set.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Miscarriage

blackcoffee_andgoodbooks's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Rape

zoeylou's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Rape, Child abuse, and Child death

btrz7's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault