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velvet_young's review
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Kidnapping and Violence
sillyduckie's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexism, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Toxic friendship, and Violence
lukerik's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
A particularly well thought out world. It actually feels quite real rather than a collection of clichés. Very Levinesque in it’s exploration of horrible things being done to people without their consent. Also explores moral questions around personal accountability.
Basically, people in the past (our future) have programmed a computer to control the entire population through a combination of drugs, and genetic and social engineering. Basically condemning their own descendents to a half lived life and the end of which they are killed.
There’s a great twist at the end which luckily I’d managed to forgot in the thirty years since I last read it. Be careful what you read about it before starting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gaslighting, Rape, Violence, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Murder
queergoth_reads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I pretty much loved every Ira Levin book I've read but I couldn't get on with this one. I really didn't like the main character. I didn't feel anything for him, he was not a good person and yet everything went right for home.
TW:Rape
I hated the scene where he assualts the main female character and it somehow makes her come to her senses and fall in love with him. That lost me.
I hated the scene where he assualts the main female character and it somehow makes her come to her senses and fall in love with him. That lost me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape and Violence
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