Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

6 reviews

inmyths's review

5.0

absolutely adore this type of storytelling 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, Death of parent, Excrement, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, War, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Vomit, Sexual violence, and Suicide

prosenheim's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Ableism, Physical abuse, Torture, Gore, Cannibalism, Sexual violence, and War

laraloops's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Absolutely gorgeous. It took me longer than usual to finish because I kept stopping and rereading paragraphs of beautiful prose. The alternating POV's are masterfully done, it's mainly told in a theater setting and the side characters chiming in with their thoughts is such an amazing and cool concept that immersed me in the story. 

The story is heart wrenching and beautiful and so worth it. The magic and gods were dark and fantastical. I cried multiple times and it ends masterfully. One of the best books I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, War, Animal cruelty, Violence, Excrement, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual violence

wormsnacks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

Extraordinarily written, the writer pulls no punches and weaves the story beautifully, my only issue is that while I understand the writer's dedication to leaving in lots of graphic or difficult scenes, I felt that towards the middle of the book it became a little too bogged down in the gore for me to easily recommend it without so warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, War, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

sunjaybooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring slow-paced

5.0

This book has it all! Gender, family trauma, psychic tortoises, ableism, gay sex, moral ambiguity, genocide, the broad scope of history, magic and myth. It's beautifully written and also deeply deeply violent and yet still humanistic in its portrayal of the aggressors, victims, and all the morally ambiguous people in between.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Excrement, War, Ableism, Alcoholism, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Classism, Self harm, Suicide, and Genocide

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Racism, Gore, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Rape, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Violence, Sexism, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Grief, Genocide, and War