Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

4 reviews

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I found the concept of this very interesting; there is a discovery of giant robotics parts that predate civilization that could create it for thousands of years buried Underground. a team is assembled to find these pieces, put them together and make one of the biggest scientific discoveries of human kind. 

The execution was mostly interesting. it was told via transcripts of recordings, journal, articles, news entries. But this means that they are always talking about the events as happening in the past even if it was just recent. It made some of the events later on a little hard to follow or believe.

It also suffered from not having strong characters, and the characters that were present were not very flushed out with their motivations for doing things. 

I think in particular I did not love reading about one of the female main characters as written because the male author portrays her in a fairly unkind light (promiscuous because of relationship trauma) and does not have a good grip on redeeming qualities other than that she is determined and loyal. 

There’s also a weird subplot towards the end that I’m not gonna get into but I’ll put in the spoilers:

the two main pilots are kidnapped at the end and are taken samples from without their knowledge to potentially create clones from.

it felt… odd and didn’t hit the right way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, and War

Minor: Sexual content and Sexual violence

surprisebear's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

aviery's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

bardic_llama's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Torture, and Kidnapping

With the sexual violence, one assumably female character without the consent of another female character,

takes her eggs in attempts to conduct intro vitro fertilization.

I don't know what that falls under but my closest guess is sexual violence. The chronic illness bit is that a male character is given