Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

L'Avatar by Jacqueline Carey

13 reviews

zone_a3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Rape, Torture, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

storykeeper_saga's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Torture, Misogyny, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

ambientdusk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Self harm

accidentalspaceexplorer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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 was very compelling and I read it straight through, all in one go. This one, more so than the other two, is extremely extremely dark in the middle. So many content warnings!!! But I still enjoyed Phedre's narration and the politics of the world, and especially the traveling portions on either side of the extremely dark bit. I am looking forward to the next trilogy though, in the hopes that it will be less filled with torture.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Slavery, Rape, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Addiction

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Pedophilia

jashanac's review against another edition

I mean, I got 73%... I could have finished. I just didn't want to. 

At this point I was more or less just on this ride with these characters for the fact that I've read the previous two books. But really, I was getting pretty tired of Phedre's martyrdom and all this damn traveling to and fro and back and fro again... and some of the cultural stereotypes were... not super great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Gore, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual content, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, Death, and Child abuse

meganphilippa's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

karsto's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

katiewp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse and Torture

parthenogenetics's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

if you got this far you're going to like this one. in the middle it seems like there are going to be two disparate halves... there are, but Carey makes it work

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Torture, Trafficking, and War

ynbushehri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Excrement