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lmgst30's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Minor: Trafficking, Bullying, and War
claudiamacpherson's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexism, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, War, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Torture, Sexual content, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Death, Cursing, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Hate crime, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Body horror
Minor: Self harm, Bullying, Child death, Abortion, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Slavery, and Suicide
i_read_big_boucs's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Thoughts:
- Is it weird that this book was very oddly empowering? I was simultaneously shocked in horror by the violence of the things that happened, but I guess I had never experienced myself as a woman as potentially "running the world" or the kind of person one has to fear. Is this why men like all the boom boom military movies? Because they're always the one doing the killing and not the permanent victims in all media? It was really interesting to really experience in my gut the way the female characters were just not afraid anymore. I felt safe, I felt powerful. It made me realize how much I take for granted unconsciously that I am vulnerable to harm in many situations, and that this is just such a default I experience it as the human condition. This was a powerful emotional experience.
- as a feminist, there was this permanent anxiety in me that this book would be used in an anti-feminist way to say "Look! this is what the feminists want!" because we spend so much energy saying we don't want female domination but equality. So there was something that felt incredibly taboo but also exciting and morally complex about running with the opposite narrative, while the cleverness of the gender-flipped details is such that it serves a feminist point as well.
- something I haven't really settled my mind on is the dimension of masochistic sexual excitement experience by Tunde. In some ways, I found the inclusion of how domination becomes eroticised accurate to heterosexism and the way women under patriarchy come to experience things. But it was also extremely disturbing and existed really throughout the whole book. Does it represent the way men write women in flipped? Is it also a way of embracing this moral complexity? Oof.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Child abuse, and Murder
gabgeh's review
- 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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Trafficking, War, Xenophobia, Body horror, Death, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Abandonment, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Slavery
thelizzielibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and War
brigiddolan's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence
mossybean's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, and Violence
octopus_farmer's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Violence
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, and Suicide
Minor: Excrement and Trafficking
katherinew's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Murder, Torture, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, Vomit, and Suicide