Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

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16 reviews

ezwolf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This was kind of like Cabin in the Woods meets the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. But queer and with a dash of found family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gore, Violence, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, and Sexism

gellyreads's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Overall, this book is really fun. It can get pretty preachy at times, but it doesn’t wear on me in a bad way. It’s just noticeable. I got a bit frustrated with the

monster concept. I loved the idea of invisible monsters and that it represents privilege and trickle-down economics, and how this country and the mostly white elite has prodigies off of slavery, bipoc, queer, disabled, and poor bodies. I just wish the description of the monster once it wasn’t invisible was cooler.

The amount of characters and the POV can be a bit jarring at first, but this grew on me. I also think the first half is weaker and a bit too slow for me compared to the second half. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Ableism, Misogyny, Grief, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War and Rape

leafy_literature's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Great book, nice fast read. Only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is the map in the beginning is completely wrong, based on where things are located in relation to one another in the text. Why create a map if you can't even bother to make it right?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Violence, and Death

Minor: Death, War, Misogyny, Child death, Blood, and Physical abuse

kaylasbewks's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.0

First one star of 2024! 🎉
This book was not enjoyable at all.. to be fair I did laugh a couple times but that was because I felt like I was going insane. The characters were flat, their relationships with one another felt meaningless and rushed, every stereotype under the sun was chucked in there too alongside other overused horror tropes. The writing was just baffling, the perspective jumps were jarring and ruined any chance of tension + the reader is literally told the entire backstory and origin of the threat through letters. The characters don't find anything themselves and instead luckily run into someone who can tell them everything! The primary villain is cartoonish and so annoying it makes my brain explode, the 'others' are not even in the book so that's wonderful. The plot itself felt obvious too. I want to cry.

..Apologies for the disorganised 'review', it's almost 1am and I just needed to get all my thoughts out so I could sleep without my brain exploding. <3

Rated using the CAWPILE sytem. :3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Gun violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: War and Child death

kier__'s review

adventurous dark medium-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Gore, Violence, Homophobia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Blood, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

vanesst's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Child death, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Blood, Classism, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Animal death

janachigo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Homophobia

Minor: Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Body horror, War, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Child death, Sexism, Self harm, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

anniereads221's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

The vibes were it
It kept changing which character we were following so it took a while to get used to it.

I enjoyed it. I am not gonna lie was it consistent? no. But i kept turning the page to see what would happen next i also loved the old abandoned amusement park.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Sexism, Murder, Misogyny, Grief, Racism, Gore, Death, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

mauvesoul's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Blood, Gore, Homophobia, Classism, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Torture

Minor: Medical trauma, Medical content, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

jenc's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.75

Pretty good collection of wheelhouse tropes that I can tell you about because they're spoilers. Also really good character explorations, some more meaningful and finished than others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Blood, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment