Reviews tagging 'Rape'

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

60 reviews

deailbhe's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-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: Rape, Cancer, and Violence

juliette_d_03's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

You will either love this book or hate it, but it will leave an impact on you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Cancer

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

irisreads1996's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

It took me a while to get in to this as the prose is very unusual. I was very surprised to find how visual the writing style makes this book - the sentences are not grammatical and don’t make proper sense, however the images that it was able to conjure up was amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

ada_km's review

challenging dark emotional tense

4.75

The writing style was very interesting, unlike anything I have read before, but so clever. So raw and real, gut-wrenching, disgusting, cold, terrible - I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Cancer, Incest, Physical abuse, and Suicide

justanexistentialgirl's review

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Grief

vickyreptile's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Uffff.
Así se va mi último libro del 2023. Quizás uno de los más desafiantes que leí. 
Una chica es una cosa a medio hacer es, quizás, indescriptible. La historia es una historia familiar, de amor y traumas y dolores compartidos y secretos que se enraizan como hierbas malas. Sin embargo, lo trascendental del libro, de la novela, no es su historia sino la forma de contarla: un monólogo interno sin pausa, asfixiado, entrecortado, una conversación constante con un interlocutor lejano, incapaz de escuchar, un otro que no entiende pero que lo es todo, que es el motor del discurso y el fin y el principio. 
Siento que me va a llevar días terminar de procesar Una chica es una cosa a medio hacer. Siento que el poder hipnótico de su prosa mantendrá su hechizo sobre mí largo y tendido. Lo recomendaría? No lo sé. No solo por los trigger warnings (que debería tener escritos por todos lados), sino porque esa misma prosa afiebrada, caótica, interrumpida, no es de fácil digestión. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

froggylife01's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Rape

shafia42's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

wow. initially i was relucant to start the book, id never read anthing that had a similar wrting style, so it felt dauting. i got about 20-30 pages in still confused and not really clicking iwth the book but then i read a review of the book written by somone who was blown away and i decided to continue. and im so glad i did. once you get into the rythm of the writing you are turely transported, but the thing thats differnt about this book is that youre not imagine like a movie with all the things that happen but rather only the feeling. it felt a lot like reading muisc, the book takes you through so much emtions, so much so that some scenes were too graphic and hard to get through even though the passages were only a few sentances long. you get transported into the narrators head and fwhilke you read this book you are her. i cried so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Incest

foolygirl's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Rape, Abandonment, Child abuse, Incest, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, Cancer, Bullying, and Death

ezravarley's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

listen to the audiobook!!!! i struggle to read prose that’s broken up and styled in the way this book is, so listening to it gave me the full harrowing devastating experience of taking in this story. absolutely crushing story of abuse. don’t expect to finish this and feel good! that’s my cup of tea though and i loved how irish it was so good rating from me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Bullying, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, and Vomit