Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

6 reviews

kailanlovescats's review

The weird description of Eiko sleeping with thai (trafficked?) prostitutes and masturbating to the memory of it, overlaid with him about to puke from fish toxins was just too much for me lol. I'm sure they were setting him up to be a morally Grey character you feel bad for since he also got himself enslaved, but it was just too out of left field. 

The ick was immediate lol. Too bad, the plot and other characters sounded intriguing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Slavery, and Trafficking

Minor: Vomit, Violence, and Suicide

sierrabowers's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I only read this book the entire way through because it was assigned for my book club. I would have DNF’d about 30 pages in if I could have. I think this book did have some good qualities, such as the observations made about humans and our relationship to living creatures on Earth other than ourselves. I also think it asked interesting questions about consciousness, and whether or not in the future, we should consider androids as conscious. But overall, this book was way over my head and I understood almost none of it. The ending was hopeful but it didn’t give me any satisfaction. I would not recommend unless you love science and can understand VERY complex plots. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Deportation, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Classism, Confinement, Physical abuse, Self harm, Trafficking, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

miniingrid's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Suicide, Sexual content, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, Animal death, Violence, Confinement, and Trafficking

Minor: War

dehahs's review against another edition

The writing was quite bland. Switching narrators every chapter (none of whom were compelling) plus breaking up the already short chapters with "non-fiction" quotes at the start gave me whiplash; there was too much context switching for me to really wrap my head around anything or feel invested in any of it. Unfortunately, the audio didn't help either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Slavery

tayrayhay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual content

pezzo's review

challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, and Sexual content