Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

104 reviews

nahimgood's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Alcohol, Drug use, and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery, Confinement, Infertility, and Fire/Fire injury

beeping_librarian's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Not bad. Mysterious and unsettling. Motherhood/chosen family, and how love can twist you to do terrible things. There were attempts to add levity and deep personal connections, neither of which really worked. 

Flipping back and forth in time kept me guessing enough to stay engaged, but a lot of the dialogue and characters themselves were just not very interesting. The romance subplot was not believable. The ending was depressing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Gore, Pregnancy, Rape, Vomit, and Xenophobia

lemerrier's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Grief, Violence, Pregnancy, Gore, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Blood

Minor: Trafficking and Infertility

emcl7weenie's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

First 10 chapters of this book were fantastic with setup, character development, mystery, worldbuilding, and pacing. Then it stopped for the rest of the book. The 2 stars are for a creative concept with the book eaters and setting a fantastic gothic horror tone. As well as some well written scenes. Overall, it fell flat. It was a heavy character driven story, but lacked a lot of character development for me. As well as

wasting a lot of time in the past. Being in the past so often the author wasn't able to build up present tension, character relationships, and tension well enough. The ending was also very predictable.

It felt like you were in a DnD campaign and the party decided to speed run the main objective skipping all cut scenes and side quests of interest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Sexism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Sexual assault, and Violence

crom's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Minor: Sexual assault

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Grief, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infertility, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia and Trafficking

montereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

This was so unexpectedly excellent. A very underrated book, with a fantastic performance by the audiobook narrator

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Child death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault

baddieburton's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Vomit, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Murder

Minor: Car accident

nightmarebees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Gore, and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

booksjessreads's review against another edition

This book just really disappointed me and I realised I didn't really care what happened to the end. I didn't feel invested in the characters and I felt the layout didn't really work. The chapters about Devon's younger life were insightful, but as I got through the book they felt so unnecessary. Also, the writing did not flow that well and I found it difficult to stay engaged. 

I think the book offers a really interesting premise but it just wasn't convincingly carried off for me. I am sure this will be enjoyable to others though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Cannibalism and Rape