Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

15 reviews

ohillchimhini's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Homophobia

hhbaker's review

emotional reflective

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Mental illness, Drug use, Racism, Deportation, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, and Sexual violence

k_a_i's review

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? Yes

3.5

Beautiful read - life is messy but what is left at the end? Love as a practice - love as a way to move forward. Love as effort. 

The things I have critiques on about this book seem to still serve the vision, narrative & context of this book so very good read overall! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Addiction, Police brutality, Classism, Grief, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

lindsaywolfson's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

A story of what "could be different" if we stopped hiding from ourselves.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence and Child abuse

academic_mama's review

2.0

Loved the Milwaukee setting—I lived there during the book’s timeline and have been to the Y-Not 😂

Totally turned off by the explicit language/sex stuff. Also fat-shame. Just not for me. Protagonist is a bit too twee.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Fatphobia

bookswithisabel's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Deportation, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Racism, Mental illness, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

kaseycanread's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Rape

jdianm's review

tense 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

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment, Deportation, Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder, Police brutality, and Homophobia

cebollayajo's review

emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

was unlike anything i had ever read before- at least in terms of writing style. me & sneha are so similar yet so different…. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Racism

oliviahamilton's review

emotional funny 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

5.0

This book is so good, so well written, so queer, so precise, I am convinced every character is a real person. So much nuance about mid-20s uncertainties, living between two worlds, trusting a system that won’t love you back. 10/10.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual violence