Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

21 reviews

winx15's review against another edition

Content was too much for current mental state

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence

brookey8888's review

dark emotional informative mysterious medium-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? Yes

3.0

This started off really strong, but then I lost interest with where the story went. I loved learning more about Indian customs and beliefs. I also thought it was great/important that the author talked about how the feds literally do nothing to help in cases and the drug problems. I just wish this focused more on his vigilante stuff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

ashlitas's review

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Violence

jourdanicus's review

hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was everything I want in a crime thriller, without any of the tired tropes that make me end up avoiding crime thrillers even though I tend to want to read them. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes a medium to fast paced crime drama - if you can stomach descriptions of violence and fighting, I think it's worth it because this story involves bad guys coming to justice in really satisfying ways. As a final note I really appreciated the author's writing of the characters overall - they were believable and sympathetic - but especially the women characters. I typically avoid fiction written by men because of too many bad experiences with the way women characters were written, but Weiden's female characters were fully developed, not just accessories to the vigilante male protagonist. Much respect to this author and I look forward to future works by him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, and Grief

bookswhitme's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Drug use

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Fatphobia

horrorbound's review

dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

okays1331's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

darcyreadssometimes's review

• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

I really liked the way this book explored Virgil's sort of complicated relationship with his Indigenous identity. Reading this book, it's so obvious that own voices writing is important - the author imbued the characters, settings, problems, and posed solutions with so much nuance. I did feel a little underwhelmed by the ending, like it ended too quickly after the climax, maybe? I should also say that thrillers aren't usually my genre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault

readwithsuzanna's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Torture, and Death

Minor: Sexual assault

alylentz's review

adventurous dark informative fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

 This was a very fast-paced, engaging read, and I learned a lot about the issues facing reservations that I had no idea about before! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault