Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Граф Монте-Кристо. Том 2 by Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas

15 reviews

cynicalraven's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Not a review, sorry. Just thoughts for myself. Please skip this. 


Eugénie real mvp here. Truly an icon. She lived up to Albert calling her Diana,

considering she ran off with a woman after saying that all men are terrible. I mean she was not wrong considering there is not a single decent man in the whole book

Also, the only woman with a minimum of agency. 

apart from Villefort's second wife who killed everyone in her family lol

Poor girl said "fuck this shit I'm out"

and ran off with her gf

 
In the time the book was written I'm sure her character was not seen as positive but I don't care. All the other women are... something. Why am I analysing the women of this book? Because the men are all terrible and that's literally the point of the book lol. Mercedes has no personality whatsoever because she's supposed to be the faithful righteous selfless woman who's only interest is her son. Valentine's is more or less the same. Her relationship with her grandpa was cute. The way everyone treats the man is not. But what can I expect from a classical book? Not to be racist, misogynistic and ableist? 

I would have liked the book more if the Count

did not end up with a girl who is not even 20 and less than half his age, whom he used to call "my child" and referred to as his daughter because that's literally disgusting. Also he's literally a slave owner. "But you have to understand when this book was written!!" Yeah, in a time when slavery was illegal in France. Still a slave owner. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity and Rape

nachtvlucht's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, and Murder

Minor: Rape

_james_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Death, Eating disorder, Rape, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and War

mmefish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Trafficking

i_was_a_teenage_bibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death and Confinement