Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

224 reviews

audreyolejasz's review against another edition

3.25

The ending felt like a cop out 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War

comfyqueer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and War

emlev1995's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and War

jaydeecepticon's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault and War

pamscafati's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

stormbringer52's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

• 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

4.5

This book is a really tough read and took me a long time to finish. However, it was worth it. It made me incredibly uncomfortable in some parts, but that was the point. Ruth Ozeki did a wonderful job of representing unsettling topics in a way that felt real and disturbing. I found myself nervous to turn the page at times, worried what would happen next.

Brief spoiler for the end, but

it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I liked it, but it did feel a little out of nowhere. Granted, there were slight magical elements throughout, like how things that Ruth saw online suddenly disappeared, or Naoko conversing with her deceased great uncle. I suppose the end of the book meant to sort of explain why things were happening, but it kind of lost me honestly.

However, I still thing the book was beautifully written, so this does not impact my opinion much :]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Vomit, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Blood, Dementia, and Grief

noiraet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad 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? No

5.0

this book made me grow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt

sestout's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cb1984's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad 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

The concept was really interesting, and I always wanted to read the next chapter. But I did feel like it lost me a bit in the last 50 pages, when it just got very weird. I figured that there was something weird going on, and I feel like having sat and thought about it for a while I think I understood what was going on. But it was just a bit jarring.

All in all: very good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Fatphobia

stw07's review

mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Rape