Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

47 reviews

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.75

This book was really amazing and un-put downable. Flynn did an excellent job creating that gothic atmosphere of dread, even from the beginning before you even understand why Camille dislikes her mother. She also captures the gothic genre's over the top drama in the way the story resolves very nicely as well. The only parts of this book were the way sex is emphasized, especially with teen characters, like the way Camille describes her younger sister and her friends, but I also agree with the Richard in that she grew up in a super misogynistic society so Camille potentially didn't know better/ think it was wrong. Bug it just made my skin crawl reading it, which again may be the intention but it happened A LOT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Drug use, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Animal cruelty, Bullying, and Grief

Minor: Addiction and Pedophilia

maddwomann's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Abandonment, Body horror, Vomit, Grief, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Medical content, Classism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Cursing

captainroz's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Murder, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia and Mental illness

Minor: Misogyny and Rape

sennaje's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was an experience. Please do heed the content warnings though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Rape, Blood, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Minor: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, and Panic attacks/disorders

rebeccajben's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.5

I genuinely hated this book I would not have read this if Sofia didn’t annotate it for me. Tbh her annotations were what got me through. I’m terrible at predictions but I guessed the plot so damn quick and the mediocre twist at the end was not enough to redeem this even a little bit. Reading this was so deeply unpleasant and I felt sick the whole time lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Torture

cammiem8's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The narrator for the audio book was perfect, Amma sounded like a southern Azula and it fit her character perfectly. The story had me on edge even though I knew  the ending. There were many times where I was so angry with the protagonists choices, but I get why they were included to show her declining mental state. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Murder

Moderate: Blood and Vomit

Minor: Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Camille reveals that she was

gang raped at a party when she was thirteen, she does not believe that this was a rape despite being extremely intoxicated and much younger than the perpetrators.

This may be upsetting to survivors of sexual assault, as her perspective is to victim blame, despite

having not processed that she was a victim herself.

There are also many depictions of hypersexual children as young as middle school.

gon_fishing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

blueroo's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Really good read but the triggers are incredible. If you have a trigger, this book WILL activate it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Rape, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Bullying, Body shaming, Blood, Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit

savannahbennem's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

not too happy with this book, i know a lot of people like it but i couldn’t get into it as much, super slow paced and i kind of regret reading it i could only read like 50 pages at a time without getting bored, but the ending was good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit