Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Stand by Stephen King

89 reviews

stella323's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Child death, and Violence

bri1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, and Rape

julianam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Addiction, Gore, Homophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny

voicenextdoor's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Murder, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Ableism

Minor: Rape, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Drug use, and Misogyny

clementegarcia101's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Racial slurs

briar_nettleroot's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Drug use

knenigans's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Great story, great cast of characters. A lot of food for thought.
Would've been 5 stars if it weren't for the two rape scenes and the aggressive fatphobia. One of the rape scenes was directly plot related and was relatively vague, the other was explicit and did not contribute to the plot. While not shown, there is one section of dialog graphically describing other rapes.

Also about 0.05 of that missing 0.25 stars is because it seems like EVERY character in this book pisses themselves at least once. I'm quite sure there was more pants-pissing in this one book than all the others I've ever read in my entire life. I really hope one of the survivors turned out to be a pelvic floor therapist so they can help all these poor people control their bladders....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Rape, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racial slurs, Torture, and Suicide

winglesswarrior's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Racial slurs, Blood, Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, and Gore

lauren_stephh's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Racial slurs, Murder, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Racism

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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: Violence and Cursing

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

Minor: War, Child death, and Terminal illness