Reviews tagging 'Violence'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

29 reviews

mandareads222's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, and Cancer

Moderate: Grief, Suicide, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Infertility

Minor: Alcohol and Violence

neliadiedenise's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Death, Confinement, Gore, Suicide, Grief, Murder, Blood, Dementia, Infertility, and Terminal illness

mjmiller_'s review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Excrement, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide attempt

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Death, and Infertility

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Terminal illness, Blood, and Mental illness

Minor: Misogyny, Violence, Sexual violence, and Police brutality

earofthedog's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Death

Moderate: Violence and Police brutality

blodwyn_nywdolb's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Violence

paperkindle's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Suicide, Abandonment, Medical content, and Confinement

Moderate: Dementia, Kidnapping, and Cancer

Minor: Violence

hanmccull's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Dystopian, bleak, haunting, thought-provoking: it’s not often you describe a book as life-changing. Straight into my list of all-time favourites (despite the epic book hangover). Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend!

Personally I chose to skip the introduction before reading as it was giving too much away, and I’m very glad I did so.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexism, and War

itsybitsygingie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was an incredibly difficult yet beautiful book to read. It brought forth some incredibly difficult feelings concerning being human and the role of womanhood within society. My one slight of the book was the sheer amount of anti-female sentiments from the main character. Her one consistent thought throughout the book was that she was better because she wasn’t constrained by the supposedly womanly traits of the other characters, and I didn’t see as much growth as I would liked concerning this position. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Genocide, Violence, Murder, Terminal illness, Grief, Suicide, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

whyalice10's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Dark, dystopian, disturbing. A book to make you think. Themes of death, suicide, loneliness, confusion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicide, Confinement, Death, and Violence