Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Dom sióstr marnotrawnych by Krystal Sutherland

243 reviews

pennywhizzle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Stalking

Moderate: Suicide, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual assault

marieeveparentroy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

brooketreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

It wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. Sure it had darkish elements, but it didn’t feel fully fleshed out… no pun intended there. I also kind of wish Grey had been the main character. I found her more interesting than our actual main character Iris. I found Vivi boring. And the idea that these three super close sisters were so completely different from each other just didn’t make sense to me. I did really like the mom though. I thought the book started out pretty strong, but as it went on I just started to get bored. Then, I didn’t really enjoy the end, as in the whole last part after they find Grey. There’s basically two mysteries and we only get an answer to one. I hated the love angle that was thrown in. One, it wasn’t believable.

Two, he was Iris’ sister Grey’s on again-off again boyfriend.

I had been so exited to read this, and I definitely thought it was going to be a 5 star.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Sexual assault, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcohol

The sexual assault is marked for a couple reasons that contain spoilers:

One, a man does try to sexually assault the MC Iris. And two, there’s this weird issue with consent because our MC and her sisters have power to influence others and are so extremely attractive that it makes people want to kiss them. Some do in the story even though they may not want to or shouldn’t.

braveprincess11's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Premise was solid enough, but it had far more potential as an adult novel. Publishing as YA limited how much Sutherland was able to explore her ideas, and as a result… it wasn’t very good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual assault and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

blackthornfaery's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

mary_stormageddon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.75

I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time. What a devastating ending! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sparklingstarling's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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: Child death, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

imskylow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Dark and twisty and interesting. All of the descriptions had me glued to the pages. The death and decay vibe was just so prevalent everywhere but described with such tangible imagery. 

A WHOLE star off for that egregious kiss though. Did not need that to be in the story. We can have platonic relationships between sexes too, you know 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Bullying

aecoralie's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

edit: i'm bumping it to five stars, i can't stop thinking about this book

this book was awesome, i loved the magical realism and the aesthetic of it, but it was way too disturbing for me to rate it five stars. be mindful of the trigger warnings, there were some scenes that left me reeling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Murder

fionamatilda's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence