Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

8 reviews

acm997's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Child death, and Drug use

laurenlaroo's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Addiction, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

krysreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Drug use, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Rape

edamamebean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

This was such a beautiful book, and I wept on and off through the last fifty pages. I don’t know how Lauren Groff always does that to me. No one can convince me she’s not a prophet, either. Reading this book ten years after it was written, it’s really spooky knowing that

an extremely similar virus actually came to pass around the same time that she predicted

in this novel. She encompasses so many themes in this book—life and death, inevitability of what awaits us with climate change, coming of age. It was soso good, just so good. I’m now on a mission to read every single one of Lauren Groff’s novels before The Vaster Wilds comes out in September. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Rape, Animal death, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

alyaknedgo's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

Such a beautifully written book; it feels almost more like poetry than a novel. It is quite slow in some parts, but the essence of the story + the prose made it worth the read to me. Also I definitely cried at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

Moderate: Rape and Suicide

bookmarkedbyfi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Death of parent, Drug use, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape

sleaterkenneth's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

I really loved this, I loved Lauren Groff's writing style, I loved and connected to Bit in a way I feel like I rarely do with male narrators. It was practically perfect until in the last quarter when a global pandemic was introduced and it was so much like COVID (SARS-like, quarantine etc.) that I just wanted to finish the book as soon as possible. It wasn't even a major-point just something happening in the background of the plot but it did suck to read about! I understand how a global health threat could mirror the threat of war in the 60s/70s and I think it would be so clever and well-done if we weren't LIVING THROUGH IT! Literally not LG's fault she wrote this in 2012 and I'm reading it now and wow do I wonder how she feels about the current state of the world! Literally UNFAIR that the book ends

with the president saying that the pandemic is over thanks to people basically respecting quarantine and the power of modern medicine

but I will be reading more of LG's work! I think she is so talented, I'm just bitter that this near-perfect book wasn't pure escapism like I desperately need. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

feifeii's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape