Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

181 reviews

dragongirl271's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Fatphobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

freja's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Grief

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

favorites: especially heinous and real women have bodies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia

fairytalefootnotes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

valsometimesreads's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

The writing is overall very good and machado is a talented author. I found the short stories to be very hit or miss. I especially loved “The Husband Stitch,” which is the first in the collection. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, and Vomit

lesserkatie's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

gerose04's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A

3.5

 It’s not my favorite book, but I definitely enjoyed reading a lot of these short stories. Some of them dragged on, but others really kept my attention. In particular I liked The Husband Stitch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Homophobia

thundrflap's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Sexual assault

helhas3letters's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Dysphoria

kshertz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

Everything about this book is complicated. It’s a mix of short stories that are heavily sexual, and deal with a lot of different worlds and themes. It was hard for me to follow at times. I definitely liked some stories more than others. Overall I think it is like a niche group of people that would really enjoy this work and I just don’t think it was something that was for me.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic