Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper

5 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

hullomoon's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.25

Overall, this was a pretty solid read. One of my main points of contention was that the 1936 Olympics is around the last 100 pages of the book. If the subtitle had been "road to the 1936 Olympics" or something to that effect it would have been more accurate. That said, I'm still glad I read this. I enjoyed the characters and seeing the intersectionality and how it highlights each woman's experience getting to and being in the Olympics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Genocide, Homophobia, and Alcohol

justanotherjb's review against another edition

Too graphic for what I wanted to be read aloud with the kids

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Sexism

There was a brief but clear rape in the first few chapters. Also lots of sexism towards women (as period appropriate but not in language that people may want their young readers to hear).

tiasreads's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

lcg527's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring fast-paced

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

2.5

Did not like the fictional approach to the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Rape