Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Kratko, čudovito življenje Oscarja Waa by Alenka Bole Vrabec, Junot Díaz

17 reviews

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Abortion, Sexual violence, Cancer, Cursing, Xenophobia, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Fatphobia, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Confinement, War, Toxic friendship, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Hate crime, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death, Violence, Racism, Grief, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Dysphoria

perude's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexual content

jesthemess's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Low-key a pretty good book. Yeah it's weird, but the ending actually brought up my ranking. I thought it was masterully written how Oscar's arc finished.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Abortion, and Chronic illness

eveymarie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Fatphobia, Death, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Violence, Child abuse, Cursing, Murder, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

tina_reads's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective slow-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

3.0

Read this for class.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

deebee223's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Cursing, Addiction, Blood, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Rape, Bullying, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Torture, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Moderate: Murder, Colonisation, War, Kidnapping, Cancer, and Classism

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Suicide attempt, Violence, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Medical content, Cancer, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Rape, Stalking, Terminal illness, Excrement, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Torture, and Abortion

abacall's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Drug use

Moderate: Racism

lacifaeria's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

This was the best book I've read all year. Hands down. Couldn't wait to give this a 5 stars. Would give more if I could. 

I see Oscar so much in the people I've known and in myself, the Nerd of Color. The deeper connection with the women in his family was so beautiful (Lola and Beli for sure! and a whole monument to La Inca), these beautiful complicated women creating the structures that he would develop within, complete with their own difficulty grappling with freedom and independence, womanhood and the role love plays within it, generations of de Leon's fantasizing about being saved. This was just - amazing. 

Oscar, that lovable nerd, and the own nerdiness of the narrator, Lola's novio, was cringeworthy in accuracy and I laughed and cringed with each self-sabotaging, self-deprecating line. Being a teenage/early adult nerd in constant love was something I felt so deeply. That juxtaposed against his cultural pedigree, the reputation that smothered him about Dominican men and their lothario prowess, was a new level of angst and anxiety I have rarely articulated but wholeheartedly appreciated seeing in print. 

And the cadence of the narrator? UGH -- amazing. I've heard this language, this perfect weaving of the profane and the obscene with salient witticism, was comfortably colloquial and so accessible. It felt like the stories you heard in hushed whispers once the relatives got enough liquor in them at the cookout. Like....nostalgia. Like home. 

I don't want to go into detail because I think the story is so perfect that I'd rather someone read it first. It made me literally laugh out loud more times than I can count, and actually made me cry on no less than three occasions. Truly the best book I've read this year and there were some heaters on the list already but this was truly a fucking awesome read and I am now a Junot Diaz forever fan. 

Stop reading this review and go read it. Just -- go read it right now!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, and Misogyny

georgie700's review against another edition

Misogynistic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexism