Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

78 reviews

tinyflame4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Car accident, Colonisation, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug abuse, and Bullying

limbsy's review

challenging emotional funny sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence

town_scar's review

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

ratstronomer's review

emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Kate Beaton’s sequential storytelling is reflective and moving. I learned a lot about the Canadian oil sands and the people who work there in search of financial hope like herself. Nothing is ever black and white and I think Kate illustrates that reality beautifully. Everyone who works in the sands is changed, even Kate.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Rape, Racial slurs, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Car accident and Suicide

jeskh's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

Amazing book but difficult to get through emotionally. Great reflection on the impact of the oil sands that I think all Canadians will be able to resonate with in some way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault

vixenreader's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

The great Canadian graphic novel, it is an exploration of what people will put up with when they need to take care of themselves, and how others will take advantage of those because of their lack of resources. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Colonisation, Racism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Ableism

Be aware that the novel does explore workplace abuse, hardship, and harassment. If you got out of a bad job, please read with care.

iheartmuseums's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

chameleonhound's review

emotional

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Colonisation, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

nobirdtennis's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This graphic novel was phenomenal. Really and truly bone-chilling. Beaton paints a vivid picture of the desolate landscape of oil camps in the Canadian plains. As someone who has had family in these big Canadian industries, it was an eerily familiar tale of corporations willing to feed bodies to the machine under the guise of providing economic vitality to an area and financial stability to local families. A devastating portrayal of masculinity under capitalism. Beaton’s full page spread illustrations of massive machinery evoked images of icebergs: towering, awe-inspiring, and yet somehow deeply unnerving.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death, and Drug abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Racism

readersreadingnook's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Body shaming

Minor: Drug use and Addiction