Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Il dio delle piccole cose by Arundhati Roy

26 reviews

hannah_cogo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Murder, Police brutality, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Incest

yinflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Child death, Hate crime, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Incest

jellyparfum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Blood, Murder, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death, Hate crime, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Violence, Classism, Colonisation, Gore, Incest, Abandonment, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

chuseyin's review against another edition

Beautiful Writing, Intergenerational Story. Sometimes there was a cruel tone to the character observations which turned me off a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Alcoholism

rcsreads's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.5

This is such a Booker Prize book. So unnecessarily wordy and pretentious.
 No-one has ever made sex or food sound so disgusting. Also, none of the gross sex descriptions are actually necessary to the story.
 I mainly kept going because the narrator on the audio book had such a calming voice. 
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Excrement, Child death, Sexual assault, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Violence, Rape, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

laurennicolpies's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Murder, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Incest

sunny_not's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

It was very dark, brutal and hard hitting. I think that you should be in the mind space to read this to be able to read this since the content warnings list is very long. Also the language was very poetic which was nice most of the time but sometimes it made this quite hard to read. Overall a really important piece of literature but I really wished there wouldn't be incest in this... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Incest, Abandonment, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

astridrv's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

What a complicated and impactful book. First of all, I adore the writing. Heads over heels with the way Arundhati Roy describes atmosphere, places, people, gazes, interactions, and all the tiniest details of the world is so vivid, refreshing, and colorful. I was there, I felt some sentences go straight to my heart. She also writes stunningly about childhood and brotherhood. As for the story: it meanders through different periods of time, mainly between a present family reunion and a traumatic series of events from the past. The end unfolds really well in pacing, after the many detours taken earlier on. I am not sure I understood everything, and this book certainly isn't for everyone. But the thing is, when you write this well, you can take me anywhere and I will follow. I look forward to rereading this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Child abuse

Minor: Incest

marjolainegenot's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad fast-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

4.0

Absolutely beautiful. Emotional. Immersive. Playful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, and Mental illness

sunflowersinta's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Racism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Incest, Vomit, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship