Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

13 reviews

clairephillips's review

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child death, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Blood, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Incest

Minor: Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Vomit

alana_reads98's review

emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

kathrun006's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

3.5

This book feels very slice of life. I like that because it's a culture very different from my own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Grief, and Miscarriage

Minor: Xenophobia, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, and Stalking

thedreammachine's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Sexual assault, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Animal death, Child death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Rape, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Physical abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Incest

shotzee's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful and kind. Read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

eshiltonn's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Animal death, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Slavery, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma

cc0906's review against another edition

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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Rape, Murder, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Child death, Torture, Terminal illness, Medical content, Sexism, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Gore, Abortion, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Death, Bullying, Confinement, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Men are bad and boorish and everything evil under the sun unless they can do their jobs as studs and pleasure women. Women are mystical beings whose biggest accomplishments are bleeding and birthing because that's the real meaning of Womahood™. A simplification of this wack ass retelling. I don't know anything of the author and I'm not a super expert on the Old Testament story (I did see José do Egito, a Brazilian biblical tv series/telenovela about Joseph's story lol) but I can tell there were choices made here that were just to shit on the tradition just bc she could but were kinda sus. That's within her artistic license sure but there was no profound commentary, just a very New Age, White Feminist take that hasn't aged well. There were a few good passages but overall it was a version of glorifying a type of Womanhood™ I really loathe. I only finished it bc it had the keyword in one of my reading challenges and was intrigued how she'd tackle some other points of the story but it was unbearable to say the least. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Blood, Death, Infertility, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, and Slavery

kateausten's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Suicide

kaylamoran's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? Yes

3.5

I almost DNF's this but I'm so glad I didn't.  That ending... damn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault