Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

2881 reviews

shelbygibbs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Car accident, Child abuse, Blood, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Rape, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Kidnapping

mrsladle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to like this book and I liked the story, however, the writing was just terribly difficult to get through. Pretentious, pretentious(again), and pretentiously all in one sentence? And a lot of background information about characters who are literally mentioned once and the details were irrelevant to the story. 

Unfortunately, this has been my least favorite read of 2024 as it felt like a chore to read. 😔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Suicide, Car accident, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Pedophilia, Self harm, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

payson's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Chronic illness, Confinement, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Car accident, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

anyatindale's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

does every trauma victim have the ability to recover? to what extent can the love of others heal self-loathing and disgust? can anyone ever heal entirely? what happens to a traumatised person when life does not exclude them from loss and suffering that hurts more than the trauma they once faced? 

a true depiction of the immense unfairness of life, and the love that must exist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, Grief, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

gulnaaz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Eating disorder and Drug use

ki_pie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, and Self harm

kalynnar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Rape, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Blood, Torture, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Cursing, Death of parent, Vomit, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Addiction, Ableism, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Death, and Drug use

anooshka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-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

5.0

i dont  have words to describe what this book means to me. so intensely sad, so intensely tragic, yet such a beautiful story about love and friendship at times. it is relentless and unforgiving, take frequent breaks from it and CHECK TRIGGER WARNINGS before you begin!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Domestic abuse

jennifergilbertt's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Rape, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Car accident, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

radh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-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

3.75

I've been going back and forth a lot on how to rate this one. I can understand why people love it so much, but also I understand why people have been criticizing it as well. It's definitely not the literary gold some have made it out to be, but it doesn't deserve all the hate and accusations of 'trauma porn' it's gotten either. 
I think the story holds a lot of depth and speaks to important topics, but also it is definitely way too long. My main issue other than the length is that it feels as though the stories being told to you rather than you being enveloped into the story, which is how I judge a book's writing. You should be able to picture the scenes around you, which with this one you can't.  But also because of the gruesome details of the books and it's topics, if it was written in such a way that you would be able to do so, I also feel that the book would be too overwhelming and I wouldn't be able to get through it because of how horrifying it would be. So I'm not quite sure how to feel about that. 
Overall a good book, but not one I could recommend to anyone because you truly have to be in a good mindset to make it through, and it definitely could be shorter. There was also much too much exposition at the beginning that I felt was a bit unneeded. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Violence