Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

27 reviews

rachelmcg2004's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Incest, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Emotional abuse, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Rape, Xenophobia, Racism, Stalking, Sexual violence, and Classism

Moderate: Torture, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Child death

beccalynnfrank's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

Check the content warnings before reading!! Hard to read at some points, but I loved the ending and the main characters progression was so meaningful because of all the hard parts. Super cool universe she’s made and the aliens in it are super interesting and well done. Overall great world building + great characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Incest, Death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

dredadonx's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This is my first Nalo Hopskinson book and certainly won't be the last. This was a compelling narrative based around our main character, Tan Tan, who is the daughter of a political official, named Anthony. They go from living good in the Caribbean planet of Toussaint, to being thrust into the wild and brutal world called New Half Way Tree. 

In this new setting, Tan-Tan has to navigate different species and people, along with dealing with her own traumatic experiences after being abused by her father twice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Murder, and Sexual assault

lucie_b's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual assault

domatilla's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Child abuse, and Incest

ellekhupe's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Infidelity

maloki's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

abmochapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.75

This is some of the best characterization, world-building, and story-telling in the fantasy / science-fiction genre I have read. I am also obsessed with the way Hopkinson experiments with African and Caribbean language to reflect the world she created.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

unabridged_adventures's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Physical abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

raethereviewer's review

5.0

I loved this book! I read it for my Afrofuturism class and ended up presenting on it so my copy is filled with annotations. The world building was so well done. I love the way Nalo Hopkinson leans into the oral storytelling tradition to create this evolving tale. There are several traumatic experiences that the MC faces but I think Hopkinson does a great job of showing that cycle of abuse and how it can be disrupted. This is an undeniably Caribbean novel and I lived every bit of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Physical abuse and Sexual assault