Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

123 reviews

drsuzbark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

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

4.0

I'm glad I read this book. It is important to me that I remember the struggles of those different (immigrants, poverty) yet the same as me (mother,wife). The material in the book is difficult including the description of sexual abuse and physical harm done to others. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Violence

hkropp77's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

5.0

Such a beautiful story about the complexities facing immigrants. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

kayles514's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Dementia, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Pedophilia and Alcoholism

pyotrkrothotkin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, and Racism

aromea's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

anonreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, and Racism

lleottau's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.75

I really enjoyed it, finished it in a day, the audiobook is amazing but I did feel it was a bit rushed at the end, I felt like everything was solved in 10-20 pages. I would've liked some trigger warnings for rape and assault on this one.
 Reading this as a Colombian? I really think it did justice to my country 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

kclark's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

 This book explores the complexity of family relationships strained across time, distance, immigration status, and class. While Talia's journey from the correctional school back to Bogotá is used as the main plot of this book, the actual story of this book centers on her whole family and how they wound up split between two countries. We learn through non-sequentially how her parents met, started a family, and moved to the United States before the family was split up as a result of complex immigration status.

The way in which family saga is relayed is often a scene of Talia on her journey home, and then something triggers a memory of her family which then spins into a brief tangential story about a member of her family and often times will branch off a few more times into different vignettes which may last several chapters. This felt a bit messy while I was reading it, but by the time I reached the end of the novel and I reflected on the book as a whole, it worked for me.

The concept of Justice is central to this plot. Characters ability to react to unjust situations and dole out a version of justice is often restricted by their circumstances. We see how immigration status can disproportionately impact undocumented people and make them unable to access justice. We also see how one's personal justice and society's concept of what is just can often be at odds. Engel also explores how access to power skews the sense of justice.

Overall, I enjoyed this book. There were moments of beautiful prose that really struck me, but overall the book was not one of my favorites. In short, I liked it, but I did not love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Dementia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement

greatu's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Dementia, Gun violence, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

ghostnipps's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape