Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

61 reviews

neonpomegranate's review against another edition

slow-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

2.0

I hated this book and I feel manipulated in to finishing it just so I could know I was right to guess what happened from the beginning. I should have DNFed it and read a summary of it. It was slow and obvious, with a meaningless manic pixie dream girl as the main character, plus an all knowing blind character who speaks in riddles (maybe manic pixie dream girl isn’t quite right since she’s not there for someone else’s growth because literally no one grows or changes or learns anything). Yuck. This was the worst use of the idea of magic - constantly called on as a concept, never true, just a lazy, bad writing cover over the obvious things that had happened from the beginning.

oh what the brother died and existed and it wasn’t magic; Azure was recognized by name the moment she got to any place where people had known her; obviously someone who says not to ask any questions is lying; the title of the book gives away the entire plot. I just cannot understand how this was a book when the plot was obvious immediately, but nothing besides the plot existed - no interesting character development, no interesting world building, nothing. Literally every moment of this book was obvious. The reader is told the entire plot through fairytales immediately at the beginning. I cannot understand who could possibly have been surprised by these supposed plot twists.

This book was so bad it made me angry and put me in a bad mood. 

This book also has a disgusting, unnecessary sexual assault in it that didn’t need to exist. 

Basically I’m shocked this book wasn’t written by a man. Proof women can write books just as awful, vapid, misogynist, ableist in a subhuman/superhuman all knowing way, with an unnecessary sexual assault, and where no actual women ever learn or grow or do anything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

lauren97224's review against another edition

dark mysterious

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying and Sexual assault

Minor: Child abuse

uncreativeoops's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

salie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sophie1_xox's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Sexual assault

aetherkids's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

daniquevdijk_'s review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Gore and Grief

ckreads28's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

This is one of the most gorgeous reads, I've read this year so  far. Roshani always takes me traveling with each book. She had me with the book right away when it was in Paris. This was definitely more haunting and adult than her other reads, but dang!

If you love The Starless Sea and Addie Larue with the mythology and storytelling you will adore this. This had so much storytelling, mythology, magical realism, with being tangled in love, all interwoven into one story. Seeing the tales and truths woven in different ways.

This tapestry is so gorgeous with the mystery it has you wrapped in to question whose truth is real which world is real. THe narrators of the audiobook made it even more hypnotic. Definitely need my own copy asap and will be looking into the myths that were told that I wasn't familiar with before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

jbird_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Sexual content

amberghinii's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Dementia, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism