Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

4 reviews

kailiyahknight's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, War, Death, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Medical content, Vomit, Alcohol, Child abuse, Racism, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

saliwali's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, War, Violence, Grief, Murder, Bullying, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Xenophobia and Antisemitism

kuurankero's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This was very interesting book about the worlds deadliest female sniper in history. Lady death, Ljudmyla Pavlytšenko was unknown to me before reading this. So it was very cool to read about her, and I would love to read Ljudmyla's memoir book now.

My only complain is, that the book focused a lot on her lovers. Especially since one of them was apparently fictional. It would have been great to see less of them and more of Lena (I think thats her name, I listened the audiobook) or Eleanor. I never would have expected a USSR sniper and the first lady of the USA be best friends but thats cool about history. You never know the full story.

This book told me a lot of new information on ww2 and gave me new perpectives. I never knew woman of ussr could fight in the forefront. I definetly want to learn more about the female soldiers of ww2 now. Not that I never wanted before. It's always fun to discover new stories of history.

So I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone interested in historical fiction! Or if you are interested anyway. Such a great book! I also really liked the finnish audiobook version so be not afraid to listen it :D

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, War, Stalking, Murder, Gun violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

chelseylb1988's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, War, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault