Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers

16 reviews

micaela_s's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Abandonment, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault

dryftveil's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

if it wasn't for the uncomfortable age differences, i could argue for this to be 5 stars because of the cool idea and the way

the different reincarnations of characters

are written and established.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol, Abortion, Blood, Suicide, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual content

intensej's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Juliet LaCompte is a 16 year old girl in France who falls in love with Auguste Marchant, a painter. They start a secret relationship while she poses for his paintings. When her mother learns about their relationship, she curses Auguste. However, the curse goes wrong and it binds Juliet to live out a failed relationship with Auguste for each lifetime. The demon that powers Juliet's curse, Luke, has fallen in love with Juliet and must see her make the same mistakes with Auguste each lifetime. Luke has to wait for Juliet to remember their shared past before time runs out. The reader sees the reincarnated Juliet and Auguste live out their tragic love story in Hollywood in the 1930s, Los Angeles and Taos in the 1970s, and Washington, DC. in 2012. Juliet attempts to remove the curse before time runs out.

Sayers does a great job of creating memorable characters and threading the different reincarnations of Juliet together. I thought the ending of the book was satisfying. I enjoyed the way Sayers wrote about music and painting. It reminded me of the way Patrick Rothfuss described music in The Name of the Wind. Fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue will enjoy this book. A Witch in Time would be a good book for a book discussion. 

Content: sexual assault, suicide, abortion 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

hannahrosey's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Abortion, Blood, Rape, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Murder, Drug use, and Pregnancy

ka_ke's review

adventurous dark reflective slow-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? No

2.0

At first, it started strong, Helen’s first two lives are very interesting, but by the third time around, I was bored. I think the book would have benefitted by cutting the third life out entirely. A Witch in Time is also much darker than I was anticipating, so be wary if you’re squeamish or don’t like contemporary violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death, Gore, Car accident, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion, Abandonment, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Stalking, Bullying, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Infertility, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Medical content

bethhreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Suicide

Minor: Abortion, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

hsteel's review against another edition

medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

katiedalton's review against another edition

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

2.25

I really really wanted to like this. The start was so strong. Loved the alternating perspectives of Helen and Juliet. Learning about the curse, the witch history. 

It lost me when we went into each of Helen’s past lives in detail. Especially the point where they learn about the curse and in repetitive detail tell the reader what we learned in the first third of the book with Helen and Juliet’s stories. 

The last third of the book picked up the pace but felt weird after the slow repetitive feeling of the middle section. Plus there was some weird out of character actions thrown in with Sandra. That felt very out of place with the rest of the story. 

Pair that with a 3 hour long chapter (I listened to the audiobook) and none of the book flowed. It could’ve been amazing with a great editor or a new eye of “what the fuck is going on? Let’s rework this” 

Also very graphic detailing of rape and sexual assault that I was not prepared for going into this book. That I would argue served no purpose to the overall storyline. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Gore, Death, and Abortion

Minor: War, Suicide, Murder, and Drug use

toriwatson's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Suicide

antimony27's review

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, and Toxic relationship