Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Power by Naomi Alderman

64 reviews

vivikasweiven's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Torture, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Murder, Misogyny, Cursing, Child abuse, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

thalia16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Misogyny, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

nezi's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Fascinating concept but the execution leaves much to be desired. The Saudi Arabia part reeked of white feminism at times. I also disagree with the author on how the events would unfold should such a thing happen. That could just be the optimist in me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Torture, and Genocide

Minor: Death of parent

kmhst25's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

3.25

Praise: A gripping, fascinating read that does a superb job of examining men's crimes against women, by showing them to you backwards. The author was constantly stunning me with her ability to show me my world flipped, highlighting its repugnance. This change in perspective is extremely clarifying.

Criticism: It's hard to truly classify this book as feminist. The basic premise seems to be: if given the chance, women would be 100% as bad as men are. I have lots of objections to this theory, but my top 3 are:

1. It's hard to believe that all of the women who have experienced patriarchy would turn around and inflict it's equivalent on men.  Some women? Sure. The whole world? God, I hope not. If nothing else, women have first-hand experience of gender-based oppression. They know what it feels like, and people are more sympathetic to problems they have experienced first-hand. 
   
   
2. The numbers don't support it. Women already have physical power over childen, and while the flat number of people who abuse childen is slightly higher for woman than men, the actual rate of abuse (counts of abuse / the # of people with opportunity) is much lower for women than men. 
   Additionally, guns and poison level the playing field of violence. Women could easily commit violent crimes in equal number to men using any of the myriad of weapons available today. And yet they don't. Female violence is much lower than male violence, in any category, with any weapon. Why should we believe that a new female-only weapon would completely flip-flop that difference when guns have hardly touched it?
   
   
3. Testosterone exists, and both men and male animals that are deprived of it (i.e., castrated) are less likely to be violent. Ask any vet. Violence and oppression are not the exclusive products of opportunity; there are lots of contributing factors, and none of them are given any credence here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Trafficking, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

aikc's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Trafficking, Racism, and Racial slurs

karmapen's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Child abuse, Violence, Torture, Police brutality, Murder, Misogyny, Drug use, Bullying, Rape, Sexual violence, War, Sexual assault, and Trafficking

Moderate: Blood, Ableism, Body shaming, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death

amiamor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Rape, Violence, Torture, and Misogyny

maddalynmoon's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Alcohol, Confinement, Body shaming, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Body horror, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Trafficking

rebeccaxells's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Dark, thought-provoking, and hard to put down- but some really difficult content. Reminds me a lot of The Handmaid’s Tale in tone and content, but more graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Torture, and Misogyny

whailey's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Torture, War, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexism, Trafficking, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Bullying, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Genocide, Confinement, and Police brutality