Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

10 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and War

blewballoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was even better than I expected! Such a well written, compelling story. I went in pretty much blind and I definitely recommend reading it that way, the suspense and unraveling of information is great. I listened to this on audiobook that had some soundtrack music and sound effects, which was also expertly done. The narrator was perfect, and the added music and sounds were subtle and added tension and atmosphere. I would have given it 5 stars if it weren't for

The army guy's having unpleasant fixations on sexualizing women. I really hated reading those parts, they added nothing to the plot and made the characters voicing them seem excessively stupid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Alcohol, and Sexual content

vayalanay's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

A character throughout most of the book is slowly dying from blood poisoning and I'm not sure if that'd fall under the 'terminal illness' tag or not, A character steals a grenade so that if he's in a fatal situation he can go out on his own terms, a character later in the book does something similar

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

An extremely strong showing from Mike Carey, who I know from his work on X-Men. The characterizations were very well done for the most part- most of them are quite layered. The worldbuilding was strong, and the reviewers asking questions about motivations and "evolution" clearly didn't pay attention because those things were explained in the text. 

Ultimately, a few small things did knock this book down by a star for me. For one, I would have

at least switched the fates of Parks and Gallagher, though I also think you could make an argument for Gallagher's survival being more interesting than his death given the detailed backstory and internal conflict he's given. His interaction with the status quo at the end of the story would have been extremely interesting IMO

Part of this may be because I didn't particularly care for Parks, but this is also because Parks doesn't really have anything interesting going on. 

For another, I feel as though

the Hungry children were too easy to corral at the end.

The questions of the long-term viability of Melanie's plan didn't bother me because  that's not the point of the story. 

Finally, and most glaring IMO,

I feel like Sparks would have encoutnered pregnant hungries if they are able to sexually reproduce. I just have a hard time believing this aspect without a little extra narrative support - especially given how often fatal pregnancy is, and how the fungus wrecks so much of the body and shuts down a lot of its systems. Even mentioning a pregnant hungry in the crowd would have helped. I also can't say I'm a fan of the whole "sex is a human instinct" theme. I expected there to be adult hungries like Melanie that showed up later, if they specified that only the kids were the unique ones earlier I somehow missed it.

Either way, I definitely recommend this even if I feel some elements could have been treated with a bit more care- which is about what I would say about his work on the X-Men, as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Gaslighting, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Gun violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pregnancy, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Car accident

reddeddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicide, Terminal illness, Car accident, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Eating disorder, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexism, and Misogyny

thegr1mreader's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Gore, Death, Cursing, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Car accident

madelnguttorms1's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Terminal illness, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Sexual content

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

aconfundityofcrows's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

 I don't know if I'm in the right mindset to figure out how I would rate this right now because of school brain stress. That said this is really good and I highly recommend if it sounds interesting to you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse, Genocide, and Sexual content