Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

6 reviews

tab9's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood, Rape, Self harm, and Vomit

bella_t_16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Death, and Abortion

Moderate: Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Gore, Pregnancy, Vomit, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Rape and Medical content

mariannaofthelion's review

medium-paced

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

1.5

Kubica is obsessed with furthering the harmful and untrue stereotype that Black men are evil and scary. It’s nauseating how much she obsesses over skin color when irrelevant and works overtime to write in a way that associates Black people with bad things and white people with good things. The obsession with the main character’s pale skin is gross, leave me out of your fetish. By the end of the book, I realize a good chunk was just “blah” that didn’t create any suspense. I found myself skimming the book to get past the boring parts. And finally, romanticizing rape to further a pro life an agenda is absolutely vile. Of course she writes the villain to be the only pro choice person so that the pro life person is a martyr. Boring book, except I was horrified and the bigotry and bad takes.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Kidnapping, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Infidelity and Medical content

jwill583's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Grief, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Suicide, Sexual assault, and Rape

hkburke2's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.5

I read the whole thing, mostly because it was audio and it was recommended to me... This was not tense or thrilling and the racism and sexism and toxicity in the relationships started to feel unintentional which is... Just icky. Not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Xenophobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, Sexism, Abortion, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Confinement, Classism, Chronic illness, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Stalking, Rape, and Police brutality

sophiamoneva's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

This is my one of my favourite true crime books that I’ve ever read. It is just wonderful. It’s so dark and goes so much into the emotional aspect not to mention the idea that both of the MC’s are f*cked up in their own ways. *Chef’s kiss*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence