Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Toca das Raposas by Nora Sakavic

101 reviews

mittymyers's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Ableism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Murder

riccii's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

It's been a while since I read these books. The writing is not amazing and it has a lot of faults. AND YET I devoured this within about 24 hours. I do appreciate the fact that this book mostly sets up the next two books. I like these early iterations of the characters less, but also that is the point, to see how they develop over the series. Especially

Andrew on his meds

is just much less appealing to me as a character, compared to later in the series. 

This does mean that I'm looking forward to the next book(s)! 

I do have to say, that the writing definitely already picks up towards the end of the book, from

the showdown at the tv show

on you already get a good idea of what the next two books are going to look like, as far as character dynamics go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

artificalmouse's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.75

This is one of my favorite books of all time. The quotes and scenes crack me up months after reading and I find myself thinking of these characters in my day to day life. The fan base is amazing and there's much fan made content that fits in seemlessly with the official content.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Rape, Homophobia, and Torture

Minor: Self harm, Pedophilia, and Drug abuse

This book is about the mafia and all of the foxes comes from rocky and abusive childhoods, nothing is written for shock value and it's handled well but it is intense and should be known before reading this book.

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

this book was really interesting and not what i thought it was going to be. it was a lot better than i anticipated, since it is a self published book that is free with the 2 other books in this series being 99¢ each. 

i have seen this series a lot on social media as being crazy and good despite it being about sports. i usually read fantasy books so this was a change for me and i was pleasantly surprised. i did find myself getting a bit bored towards the end but i think the end of the book sets up the sequel pretty well. i am invested in Neil’s story and his interactions with other players on his team, plus his inevitable future storyline with || riko and his family who are intertwined with neil’s real past life. i also hope to find out more about who neil was before, and if his teammates will learn of his real identity||

it’s short, free, and enjoyable, so i’d say it’s pretty worth the read if you are looking for something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

blubonby's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.5

This is a terrible book. It has major ableism issues and is littered with homophobia and a sprinkle of racism. The mental health talk and rep are genuinely awful, theres an entire plot point about one of the characters being on court mandated medication, the whole medication thing genuinely makes no sense to me, and he is completely demonised the entirety of this book; and from what I can remember the rest of the series as well. There's a line question whether his violent reaction to something someone's says is his "psychosis or medication?", for the record he literally does not experience psychosis at all.  There's another line where the MC tells the psychiatrist that she's "obsessive-compulsive" because her office if clean and very organised, and responds "guilty as charged" she's literally a psychiatrist, as a character she should not be perputrating these stereotypes of OCD. Another where the MC is wondering what could be "wrong" with one of his team members from "split personalities to clinical insanity." just gross. 

One of the characters, a Mexican man who is the only openly guy character and as far as I can remember the only POC, is shown to sexually harass other characters, at one point he kisses a character, who has been drugged, without their consent, and there's a sort of joke between other characters about how he's "scheming to rape" the MC, and it's just brushed off. 

Literally the only reason I gave it 1.5 instead of 1 is because for some reason, that I truley can't pinpoint, I've come back to this series 3 times, even though it gets worse every time I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug use, Ableism, Violence, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Murder, and Death of parent

trizk's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

0.5

0 for being problematic
.5 because I have an unfortunate obsession with this series and these characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual assault, Medical content, and Ableism

kodzucat's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug abuse, Death, Alcoholism, Murder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

dmcki's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Mental illness, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Drug use, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Self harm, Vomit, Abandonment, Animal death, Car accident, Hate crime, Homophobia, Grief, Incest, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

sophie22's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Drug use, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

adrienanthony's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I don’t think I have ever read a book with such an intense “it’s complicated” when asked if the characters are loveable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Rape, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Ableism, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

My list applies for the entire series. Absolutely not for the faint of heart, take care of yourself. If literally any of this bothers you, do NOT read this or any other book in the series, I am so serious.