Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem

5 reviews

quiet_reader's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, War, Sexual assault, and Colonisation

twin1's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Sexual violence

readwithmeemz's review

4.75

This book was catnip. I stayed up until 4 am reading it, and would have stayed up even later if reason hadn’t kicked in. It was fast-paced, tense, and packed with action, emotion, magic, and a butterflies in your stomach kind of romance. I found the world building took me a while to wrap my head around, I think partially because some of the Kingdom names were similar, I had a hard time differentiating between places, and confused myself a couple of times. (It could just be me!) — aside from that, this was a fantastic whirlwind, that leaves readers breathless and itching for book 2!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and War

bkwrm1317's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-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

Holy wow. I did not expect this from a debut. Hashem is about to be a name on SFF readers’ lips for quite some time to come. 

Hashem writes complex, nuanced, real characters who do not easily follow tropes. She also keeps the reader guessing about what turn is coming around the next corner. Quite a page turner, I will definitely be recommending this one far and wide. 

Honored that I got to moderate a panel with her on it during 2023 Indie Ink Awards conference. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual violence

Mild CWs are referenced/referred to briefly, but are not a main component of the story.

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Torture, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Child abuse, Colonisation, Genocide, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Drug use, Violence, Vomit, and War