Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

11 reviews

23mama's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

This is a difficult read due to the situations of the characters, but worth the time. The characters and events of their lives will stay with you for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

elwhits's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

karlisimp's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

3.5

This would’ve been a 4-5 star read however the ending was awful and anticlimactic. The author should’ve gone one or two more paragraphs. This book is extremely dark and hard to read at most times. Story is mostly rewarding.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

amandasiino's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

ncain's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Slavery, Trafficking, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Torture

irisfromthevillage's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

1.5

This book had been on my TBR for a long time and I knew from the summary that it would be a challenging read and there’s nothing wrong with that. My issue with the book is that it felt like trauma was being stacked without giving us real depth of character. I didn’t get out of it what I felt the book was building towards. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

howwoolatthemoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

WHEW. That was rough. Well written, some beautiful stuff, but also a whole lot of darkness. Bad things happen. Bad. And I'm not sure the ending was worth the slog through the difficult events.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

sbnielsen's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, and Medical trauma

megwest27's review

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Torture

bookloverno4's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Really good, but so much trauma in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, and Death of parent