Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

7 reviews

kaia_papaya's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

The ending destroyed me (sobbing) but I still think it was probably the right ending, though I definitely understand why some people didn't like it. Very impactful, makes a hell of a statement on rape culture, and somewhat hopeful in the sense that maybe things can change when we stand up for ourselves as women. It's so f*cked up, the things teenage girls go through.

#MeToo... And I wish I had read this book when I was a teenager, maybe I would have understood it wasn't my fault. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Grief, Blood, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, Body shaming, and Bullying

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, and Fire/Fire injury

gildea's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Rape and Body shaming

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Animal death

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment, Rape, Classism, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Torture, Animal death, and Drug abuse

jj0's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

Amazing. I sobbed my eyes out. Make sure to check trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual assault, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Abandonment, and Vomit

carolinacortez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

3.5

okay, no me mal entiendan creo que este libro es increible, si tienes entre 16-19 años, por eso le di la cantidad de estrellas que le di. Alex es una fuerza del universo ideal para personas de esa edad, muestra lo que es una sororidad, lo que es estar de verdad para tus amigas, lo que es SER UNA AMIGA, es un libro muy oscuro y fuerte en cuanto a acoso y abuso sexual, empieza con un asesinato y a partir de ahí la violencia no disminuye, pero creo que la autora lo hiso de muy buena manera, nunca llegue a odiar o no estar de acuerdo con las acciones que tomaba Alex, de hecho creo que es una heroina, creo que lo que menos me gustó fue la relación romántica entre Alex y Jack, yo me hubiera enfocado aún más en a relación entre Claire.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cursing, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, and Infidelity

Minor: Torture

lapis's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

This is a reread, but I already had figured out the ending when I read it the first time, because it's clear

It's about a balancing issue in justice. Alex Craft has to die (whether or not you think she deserves to) because the story would be severely unbalanced if she did not

 

It's a tear jerker, pack tissues.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Pedophilia

To be clear, this book is about violence of all kinds (especially sexual) but it has an important gravity to the matter. It's not a joke.

brookey8888's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

“But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”

I really love this book. It’s a very difficult read, but it’s so important. It examines rape culture in many different ways. I honestly really liked Alex as a character. She was interesting and I loved seeing how she was growing as a person. Jack for the most part I liked, but he made me uncomfortable and annoyed at parts(the point). I really loved his and Alex’s relationship. I did enjoy peekay as a character as well and her friendship with Alex, and Sara and Alex and peekays friendship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Sexism