Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

18 reviews

smallredboy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

It's a beautifully written book; some parts were a bit of a lull and I didn't find myself liking them, mostly the sudden end to Dinah and Shelem's romance, but afterward the book took shape again and I found it really enjoyable. As much as I'm only woman-adjacent nowadays, the depictions of womanhood and mother-daughter relationships were really tender and I loved them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Miscarriage, Violence, Rape, Incest, Grief, Domestic abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Pedophilia

_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

breadwitchery's review

emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Incest, Death of parent, and Infertility

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Cursing, Vomit, Ableism, Abortion, Pedophilia, and Dementia

oatmealthegnome's review

emotional inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Slavery

sashafriese's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

rini's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• 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: Abortion, Blood, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

maggiemercutio's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

Very disappointing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Slavery, and Sexual content