Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Normal People by Sally Rooney

80 reviews

painausten314's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

liam_bennett03's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

emilymbrown's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

slayful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Abortion, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexism, and Racism

decie's review against another edition

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

2.0

this book isn't packaged as a romance novel -- and it doesnt neatly fit into the genre -- but there's nothing else to call it. the entire plot is just moving through an on-again-off-again situationship, and there's absolutely no depth to anything. it feels like traumatic things are occasionally  sprinkled on top of the flat premise in an attempt to add something, but they just fall flat as well. nothing happens in this book, the dialogue feels stiff and inauthentic, and everything is extremely surface level. to its credit, it was short and breezy and I finished 95% of it in one sitting. my rating would have been much lower otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Bullying, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

havoc03's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Toxic relationship

diana_caragea's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

capucapulet's review against another edition

reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Rape, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders

cutepatzie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

Its not bad book, but to be perfect she misses a bit. I very much like the character development. The topicks that this book talks about.  Marianne is amazing character very good making her job by showing how self esteem is important and also Connell (even when he is an asshole sometimes) its also amazing show how his problems make people behave in sorting way. Amazing book showing how two people with different background but similar problems can become comfortable for each other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexism and Self harm

ireneb2006's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent

jfield351's review against another edition

dark lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.0

This was a good book. I usually don’t like books with no plot, but this one was okay. However, what is with the lack of quotation marks???????? It made it very hard to read sometimes. It’s also written partly in present tense which I don’t read a lot of so that was interesting. The story was interesting and sad and just depicts growing up. It was well written (apart from the quotation marks - i know it was a stylistic choice but i didn’t like it) and dived into some interesting concepts about what it means to be a normal person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Classism, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Drug use, Sexual assault, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail