Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

13 reviews

lovemissjoan's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

dandelionlily's review against another edition

adventurous tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault and Death of parent

qrschulte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Oh wow I inhaled this book. It’s so great to find characters I love and a world I can lose myself in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcohol

apogee_11's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

gillian_aftanas's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death and Abortion

ava_ba's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book was outstanding I simply don’t care what anyone has to say, Katsa and Po were everything and Bitterblue deserves the planet

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and War

Animal attack. Near drowning.

olivebleu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

I'm surprised how much I liked this. This was a fast pace book for sure but it didn't feel rushed. I loved the dialogue and character growth. I love how the MC openly navigates being a woman in her world and holding on to what matters to her and the love interest actually respects that completely. It's just not something I see a lot in fantasy, especially not with romance involved too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

thelilgriffin's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

2.0

I thought this book was very boring. It was very slow paced with lots of travel. Not many good descriptions.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

ducklingh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

One of the best books I've read in a while. I loved it! The author did a great job of getting the reader to realize the plot twists as the characters did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Incest, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

the main character has numerous fight scenes which are detailed, but not overly gorey, main character is forced to hurt innocent(ish) people,

the main villain is very heavily implied to be a pedophile who wants to rape his 10 year old daughter and who raped a 10 year old servant to get to his wife - not graphic, in fact if a child were to read this they might not know what is going on