Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke

20 reviews

pvp_niki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Grief, Murder, Rape, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide

Minor: Vomit, Homophobia, Colonisation, Abortion, and Alcohol

carageous's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Murder

syellico's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

dungareece's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

sosh91's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.25

After sitting with this book for a while I feel I may have rated it too harshly at the beginning.

The imagery this book created was beautiful, it’s an easy page turner and it reignited my love for the power of the ocean and the secrets it keeps. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Grief, Rape, and Death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Animal death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Confinement

victoria_catherine_shaw's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Self harm, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Grief

dmswack3's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

CHECK CONTENT WARNINGS BEFORE READING!

As a lover of dual timelines and horror, this one was a big hit for me! It did start a bit slow, but once it picked up I was hooked.
 
As the first line of thai review says, check content warnings before reading. There are some topics discussed in detail that can definitely be triggering.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicide, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death

jammy_sam's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

I’m always here for a little female rage/revenge tale and I found that this book delivered! It’s super atmospheric and I was transported to this creepy shipwreck. I love how the different POV’s connected and I didn’t find the twists and turns too predictable. I also appreciate that the SA that occurs in the novel isn’t overly or needlessly graphic or gratuitous. Good character work on Cooke’s part is what helps the reader understand their trauma without having to experience every horrific detail of it with them. 

It’s a pretty quick read (I did the audiobook in just a couple days) and a solidly atmospheric spooky mystery for the winter season! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

annemariep68's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

2.5

Audiobook: this was a 2.5 rounded down. The narration was good  but i felt the story was jumping around too much for me to follow (why was it always Chapter 1??). I was looking forward to a wintery gothic ghost story and it is a bit of that but the ending was disappointing and there were quite a few lose ends and challenging plot points that didn’t seem to make sense. I was hoping for something more along the lines of The Bear and the Nightingale. Also I think there could be triggers re: sexual assault.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Kidnapping, Rape, and Sexual assault

rachelly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Body horror, Abortion, Sexual violence, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood