Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

4 reviews

nerdkitten's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Vomit, War, Terminal illness, Blood, Cursing, Murder, Rape, Torture, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Cannibalism, Lesbophobia, Classism, Outing, Ableism, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Medical content, Racism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Excrement, Grief, and Xenophobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Abandonment, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Genocide, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Sexism

acogna's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book really is good.

Is what I would have said. Instead I'll say this absolutely threw me into the sea and then left my corpse there forever.

That ending, man. Ugh.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

esknight89's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Murder, Misogyny, Gore, Vomit, Rape, Pregnancy, War, Terminal illness, Death, and Body horror

podanotherjessi's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I have such complicated feelings about this book and ahve been sitting on rating it for hours because I just don't know how to sum up what I think. Abercrombie continues to struggle with giving his women agency in this book. There were some absolutely horrific moments that elicited the emotions they were surely meant to elicit but I struggle with whether they were necessary or not. But my lord, there is some absolutely FANTASTIC character work in this. But also sometimes I was incredibly bored by the plot.
And since this is the final book in the trilogy, I need to mention that the ending was... well complicated. It had some amazing moments, but it sometimes dragged on and some of it felt very unneeded.

Characters: 9
Plot: 7
Setting: 7
General appeal: 8
Writing style: 8
Originality: 9
Ending: 6

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Cannibalism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence