Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

10 reviews

elwhits's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Slavery, Misogyny, Confinement, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

karlisimp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This would’ve been a 4-5 star read however the ending was awful and anticlimactic. The author should’ve gone one or two more paragraphs. This book is extremely dark and hard to read at most times. Story is mostly rewarding.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual assault, Rape, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

amandasiino's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Violence, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Sexism, and Torture

ncain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Trafficking, Classism, and Misogyny

Minor: Torture, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

irisfromthevillage's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

1.5

This book had been on my TBR for a long time and I knew from the summary that it would be a challenging read and there’s nothing wrong with that. My issue with the book is that it felt like trauma was being stacked without giving us real depth of character. I didn’t get out of it what I felt the book was building towards. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Torture, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Xenophobia

howwoolatthemoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

WHEW. That was rough. Well written, some beautiful stuff, but also a whole lot of darkness. Bad things happen. Bad. And I'm not sure the ending was worth the slog through the difficult events.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Bullying, Racism, Ableism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Trafficking, and Violence

sbnielsen's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Vomit, Torture, and Medical trauma

megwest27's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Torture

bookloverno4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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? No

4.0

Really good, but so much trauma in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

biblioleah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this was so much more graphic and traumatic a story than i was expecting, and although it was so hard to read, i admire what the book brought to light and the writing was truly lovely, the characters more than admirable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Racism