Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

32 reviews

pils8p's review against another edition

funny reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Classism, and Police brutality

Minor: Medical content

khurelchuluun's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I honestly enjoyed it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Torture, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, Trafficking, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug abuse

melmellon's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Murder, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child abuse, Trafficking, Sexual content, War, Toxic friendship, and Ableism

allydee's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Violence, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Murder

earthtomanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Wow. My first full-length Atwood novel, and I am amazed at just how many aspects of humanity she is able to capture. While the plot should seem fantastical, she stays firmly in the plausible and (perhaps) the likely. Many scenes are incredibly graphic though, so tread lightly if that’s a concern — Going through the content warnings, it was hard to find something that wasn’t at least mentioned in this book.

I did struggle with how prominent discussion of sexual abuse towards children was. It was incredibly disturbing. I am still grappling with why that was a necessary inclusion — though it is Atwood, and I’m sure it was not done without some thought. Also, Jimmy can fight me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Murder, Sexism, and Suicide

suzylit's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, and Cursing

Moderate: Trafficking, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Genocide

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

This book gives me a weird sense of nostalgia, I read it for the first time at 17/18 and it was my first foray into speculative fiction. 

I think it's the perfect combo of speculative fiction, interesting writing, characterization, intriguing plot, and weirdness.

The only bad thing about this book is that you can never get the first reading experience back once you know what happened to the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Child abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Infertility, Classism, Abandonment, Gore, Death, Cursing, Blood, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Torture, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Addiction, Alcohol, War, Animal cruelty, Excrement, and Infidelity

Child sexual abuse/ trafficking

hexie88's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Animal cruelty

saltglass's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense slow-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? No

4.0

Cli-Fi (climate change science fiction) at its best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Trafficking

Moderate: Classism and Death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Murder

smeagol357's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I loved this book so much. It dragged me over broken glass, put me on soft mattresses, and then whacked me in the head unexpectedly. Has to be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Strongly recommend to everyone. Do not ignore the trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and War