Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

There There by Tommy Orange

134 reviews

quailtea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

wanted to like it, but had a hard time keeping track of the characters, especially with some similar events in their lives (which i didn't think were necessarily supposed to be the same
events from different perspectives), and was just bummed out about the main event the whole book was angling towards in a way that turned me off to it, just wanted it to be over at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Child death, and Death of parent

toastyk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Sexual assault

blacksphinx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Addiction, Violence, Domestic abuse, Racism, Pregnancy, and Ableism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

allisoncc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Death, Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Genocide, Child death, Violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

dragon_s_hoard's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

hclague's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault and Addiction

displacedcactus's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

I really, truly, did not enjoy this book. It had very brief moments of beauty, mired in hours of unlikeable characters having unpleasant experiences. As an example, there's an entire chapter of a character thinking about how fat and constipated he is, and it ends with

him pooping himself after doing a sit-up

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If I wasn't listening to it for a challenge, I would have DNFed it pretty quickly, but instead I suffered through the entire thing. 0 stars, do not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Racism, Genocide, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual assault

cmstebb97's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Addiction, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Sexual assault

readwithev's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Beautifully written, poetic, and a great commentary on the modern, urban Native American experience. Most of the characters had strong unique voices. However, I think Orange could have cut Bill, Edwin, and Calvin; instead he could have brought more background and depth to the rest of the character especially Blue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

moriahleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Mass/school shootings, Addiction, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer and Car accident