Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

23 reviews

booksandlattesaddict's review

dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

piiiiiper's review

emotional reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Racism

hillzye's review

dark reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Land rights, aboriginal culture, family, respect, domestic/sexual violence, dispossession. 
Impactful read  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Alcohol, Child abuse, Rape, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence

bkwrm1317's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Such an interesting and refreshing portrayal of an Aboriginal family. As the artist cover wrote (I couldn’t say it better myself): “Even on a flash motorbike, wearing a leather jacket, we belong right where our ancestors have been for generations…”

Kerry and her mob are brilliant, even Elvis the dog and Orange Cat. Her complicated feelings for her family and their trauma, the racism and colonialism they experience in their small community in Bundjalung country, and structural inequity experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are explored on every page of this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Addiction, Incest, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Abortion

sabine_f's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

wetdirtreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Racism, Animal death, Colonisation, Grief, Rape, Death, Child abuse, Incest, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Homophobia, Ableism, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Alcoholism, and Misogyny

Minor: Abortion and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

anacereading's review against another edition

emotional medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Religious bigotry, Incest, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Racism, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Animal death, Violence, Hate crime, Colonisation, and Addiction

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Confinement, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism, and Domestic abuse

raphynette's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abortion, Sexual violence, Rape, Colonisation, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racism, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Violence, Terminal illness, and Drug use

abbie_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Racial slurs, and Incest

readwithchar's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Rape, Vomit, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Abortion and Schizophrenia/Psychosis