Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

8 reviews

dua_liepard's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Classism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Gore, Child death, Slavery, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Colonisation, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Sexism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

adam0k's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Physical abuse, Rape, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

theolivetree's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Colonisation, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical trauma, and Sexual violence

Moderate: War, Violence, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

aliciae08's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

This is an extremely well-written novel.  Mistry has a talent of interweaving seemingly unlikeable characters and forcing you to find empathy within their choices and actions.  That being said, this was not the book for me.

Just want you think there will be happiness for the characters—Dina getting married to a man that loves her, Om and Ishvar continuing their legacy, Maneck being spared by the suffering inflicted on the other characters—each hope is dashed. Yes, their are small victories and little rebellions, but the only characters that seemingly “win” are objectively terrible people. 

There’s a lot to think about when it comes to this novel, especially in how our actions—good or bad—are linked in ways we couldn’t ordinarily have imagined.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Physical abuse, Animal death, Classism, Death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Suicide, Torture, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Grief

melissahawco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Classism, Death, Murder, Hate crime, Torture, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Cancer, Excrement, and Vomit

shag_un's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Death, Blood, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Terminal illness, Slavery, Rape, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Excrement, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

avavacadont's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book is heart-wrenching. It will make you despair about the way we're headed as a society. I think it veers close towards poverty-porn on several occasions (is it possible to romanticize poverty?). However, the main thrust is on human relations and the hope/desire for survival. The ending really jarred me and it took me a good two weeks to even stop thinking about it all the time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

milflocator's review

dark reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Islamophobia, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence