Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

3 reviews

honest_soupe's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.5

evil book. gross and gratuitous with pedophilic mindset. unnecessary homophobia. written like a fanfic at certain points and Rebus is obviously an author self-insert. most of my annotations were edits.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Grief, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Gun violence, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

Minor: Abandonment, Rape, Fatphobia, Excrement, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Warning! This book is super gross in how the "heroes" react to reading police files on sexual assaults and rapes. The main character also says gross things about his very young daughter. Be warned!

yafi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I get that its supposed to be gritty and noir, but the sexism, fat shaming and men-writing-women depiction of the women in this book are not it. Also the way the main character describes ogling his eleven y/o daughter is disgusting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Alcoholism, Violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Sexual content, Murder, Mental illness, Cursing, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Addiction

Moderate: Stalking, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Child death, Police brutality, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, and Sexism

Minor: Body shaming

mgrey15's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

The mysterious killings aren’t really the focus of the book, to me it was more about the personal demons of Inspector Rebus.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault