Reviews tagging 'Rape'

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

35 reviews

johannab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

hannahbraun's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Rape, and Slavery

kayo32's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

kraskin's review against another edition

I thoroughly enjoyed a majority of the Outlander books. However, it is hard to ignore the multiple rape scenes that happen throughout the series. This book I reached my limit, and it was potentially the most graphic scene Gabaldon has included.

When Claire is kidnapped, held captive, attacked, and then raped by a group of men I was shocked by the amount of detail included. Potentially it isn't the amount of detail I was horrified by, but by the author choosing to have these actions occur to the main character who for thousands of pages we have rooted for. Additionally, the following rescue scenes by Jamie and crew were violent.

I am squeamish and decided I could not stomach the rest of the book. Maybe one day I will pick it back up. The bookmark still sits at the spot I stopped at.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

karingforbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

My version is 1439 pages and I felt every one of them. This thing is slow and drawn out, overly dramatic and the ending was rushed. I like that we see what happened to Ian but the rest of the subplots seemed random and more like they were afterthoughts that part of the actual plot. Things happen way too easily to this family, abductions (excessive numbers of them) notwithstanding. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, Incest, and Sexual assault