Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

122 reviews

jessie_cobb's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

veritymendes's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Totally not a book I normally gravitate towards, however, I truly enjoyed it. The rage I felt when Wallace and the other members of the church so much as spoke! They were truly awful people. Abatha did no wrong, Mother Earth only does what’s right, after all. Samson is a lovely devil who supports his lady’s rights AND wrongs.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Religious bigotry

lyfeinpr0gress's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Sexism

dustghosts's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Riveting, well-paced, and propellant— I read this in about 2 days and didn’t want to put it down, hands stained black from the cover. Overall, the fairytale-esque feel combined with the colonial horror was enthralling and fun to read.

Sticking points for me: I really struggle with the way indigenous people— individually and as a whole— are dealt with by this book, and feel the ~struggle/war between colonialism and something more primal is really undermined by this. There are a FEW indigenous characters, yes, but the few we see play on harmful tropes for a very brief time and are quickly (and, once, violently) discarded. Father’s ties to nature and to those who once paid him tribute are similarly shoved to the side, while the local tribe provides shelter to the ostensible villain. If Abitha had any sort of ties to indigenous culture, this would have brought everything together nicely. As it is, there’s something… very girlboss white feminism/saviorism that equally disempowers HER story and her grief, sadly.

Overall, a worthwhile read, but one I’ve been chewing on for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

killmoore_'s review

dark sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

Whelp. That was a story. 

Good for her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

alreads97's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

sizzlesteaks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

cuddlygryphon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

hannahpeterson's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

amandadelbrocco's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I didn't love that it was a story about a woman told by a man. Not that men can't write a story about women, but this story in particular just didn't feel right. 

I also found the story very disjointed and had a difficult time going back and forth between the different perspectives. Overall I liked Abitha's side of the story the best but it did feel very repetitive with all of the horrible things happening to her.

The digital version was missing a lot of the artwork which from what I understand is supposed to be very important to the story and probably would have been helpful to me in order to visualize the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, and Torture

Moderate: Colonisation