Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

45 reviews

triley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child death, Death, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

barbarella85's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Warrior girl unearthed takes place 10 years after Firekeeper's Daughter (which I absolutely loved). Unfortunately this book had too many things going on and too many character  doing things. at one point I lost interest in it, which is sad because it tries to tackle important topics and issues such as NAGPRA and missing and murdered indigenous women. Overall a good book and recommended but I gave Firekeeper's Daughter 5 stars so my expectation was maybe a little too high

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

eicart_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

emmacristina's review

adventurous mysterious 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

4.25

I absolutely loved the first book, Firekeeper’s Daughter. It took me a while to start this one out of fear of being disappointed. I was not disappointed! Warrior Girl Unearthed touches complicated, relevant themes and does so from multiple perspectives. It analyzes whether the ends justify the means, the importance of being true to yourself and doing things in a good way, and justice. I felt there were a couple loose threads as the novel wrapped up, but overall the story kept me as hooked as Firekeeper’s Daughter did. Perry is a very lovable character, the romance elements were cute and did not take over the whole plot, and it was great to see some closure for some of the events in the previous book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Murder

emmehooks's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Kidnapping, and Colonisation

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Pedophilia, Genocide, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Pregnancy, and Medical content

carolinemwatson's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, Trafficking, and Adult/minor relationship

sydapel's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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? No

4.0

Part of why I keep returning to YA is that I think the genre is able to touch on the broadly relevant topics with a refreshing twist or eye, and this is something I find Angie Boulley Is exceptional at. I adore the heist elements of this (though my main criticism is that it takes far too long to reach the action of said heist) and the main character is the kind of YA protagonist I wish I saw more of - determined and fierce, but still capable of making mistakes and learning from them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, and Racism

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, and Racism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, and Vomit

rmperash's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Self harm, Stalking, Racism, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Abandonment

amesnotamy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

I want to say I liked Firekeeper’s Daughter better and maybe I did but this book was absolutely amazing! I loved it from beginning to end no matter how frustrating some parts got

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Racism, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Murder, Violence, and Rape

Minor: Sexual assault, Police brutality, Child death, and Genocide