Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

24 reviews

laraloops's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Absolutely gorgeous. It took me longer than usual to finish because I kept stopping and rereading paragraphs of beautiful prose. The alternating POV's are masterfully done, it's mainly told in a theater setting and the side characters chiming in with their thoughts is such an amazing and cool concept that immersed me in the story. 

The story is heart wrenching and beautiful and so worth it. The magic and gods were dark and fantastical. I cried multiple times and it ends masterfully. One of the best books I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Excrement, War

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual violence

wormsnacks's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Extraordinarily written, the writer pulls no punches and weaves the story beautifully, my only issue is that while I understand the writer's dedication to leaving in lots of graphic or difficult scenes, I felt that towards the middle of the book it became a little too bogged down in the gore for me to easily recommend it without so warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, War

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

sunjaybooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring slow-paced

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This book has it all! Gender, family trauma, psychic tortoises, ableism, gay sex, moral ambiguity, genocide, the broad scope of history, magic and myth. It's beautifully written and also deeply deeply violent and yet still humanistic in its portrayal of the aggressors, victims, and all the morally ambiguous people in between.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, Classism

madamenovelist's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail