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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

4 reviews

asternautt's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicide, and War

Moderate: Kidnapping, Excrement, Gore, Rape, Gaslighting, Trafficking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Medical content, Blood, Pregnancy, and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism and Vomit

vmatias26's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Torture

longhairzuko's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Vomit, War, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

lena_and_her_books's review

This book is in my opinion not the female centered retelling of the trojan war, as wich it was marketed. It was just another book about men. 

I can excuse bad characterization, but I draw the line at Achilles and Patroclus being cishet bros. To qoute the book: "(they) fell into bed and slept - as naked and sexless as two beans in a pod". Also they´re not characterized as friends more like Patroclus having developed stockholm syndrome and being unable to leave (to be fair the author says that their relationship is something deeper than love...whatever that means).

I mean all the characters where flat and boring (I can excuse the men being boring, bcs the book was written from a female perspective, but there is no excuse for the women being badly written). The only characterization that was on point was Achilles mommy issues.

The way slavery was talked about came across as very white and privileged.

Another thing that was really off-putting for me was the use of very modern words, that ruined the flow of the storyline for me a bit.

What I liked about this book was the way the author described the living conditions of the camp. I thought that was very well executed and very realistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War