Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

53 reviews

khill33books's review against another edition

The book was very interesting but with the state of the world right now it felt a little too real and I was not in a place to be able to finish it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Sexual content

jenna_justi2004's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was the hardest book to read. It’s up there with 1984 and brave new world. Generally of worlds, I hope don’t become reality. I understand the message and it doesn’t make it any better. It’s actually so sad and essentially avoidable which is horrific. If you enjoy dystopian this is for you but this book genuinely made me sick at some points. Graphic accounts of CP and trafficking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

enbyejay's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Alcohol

alex_wordweaver's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I went in wanting to like this series. This...was not a strong start and I don't really want to pick up the other books now, honestly. This book was depressing af, however prescient it was at the time of publication, especially considering all the climatological catastrophes and the Covid epidemic we've recently gone through recently. The main character, Jimmy/Snowman, wasn't at all likeable for me. Neither was Crake. I wanted more of Oryx, though her screen time was limited to "sex object" and nothing much else besides, which seems a disservice to her own statements to Jimmy/Snowman as a character within the book. The book picked up a little in last quarter, but not enough to really make me want to look into the rest of things, or to enjoy the book as a whole.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, Murder, and War

tarajsharma's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

A highly prescient novel. Hard to read in parts, but I was never not hooked. I haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale, but I imagine the overall spirit is the same -  speculative fiction, only about

genetic engineering rather than feminism-eroding religious fervour

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mthornburg13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rcy's review against another edition

dark mysterious

3.0

Another meticulous dystopian work from Margaret Atwood.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and Sexual content

mionnechan's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

"À quel moment force-t-on la note, à quel moment va-t-on trop loin?" 

Voilà la citation qui résume à la perfection ce roman.
 Parce qu'on contemple les conséquences de l'humanité sur une Terre pas si lointaine de la notre. Des effets météorologiques extrêmes, plus rien, plus de civilisation.. Juste Snowman. Le dernier homme. 
 C'était une lecture difficile par tous les sujets qu'elle aborde, parce que - contrairement à ce que j'avais pensé - nous n'avons pas un récit d'un nouveau monde mais de la chute de l'ancien. À travers les souvenirs fugaces, flous et désorientés de Snowman, on comprend que les humains allaient droit dans le mur depuis très longtemps, mais que le coup degrâce a été porté par une unique chose.

Un autre homme, Cracker, qui est pourtant à la base de la nouvelle civilisation, celle de ces humanoïdes naïfs et sans défauts, du moins pour le moment. Nous avons également Onyx et tout ce qui l'entoure. Son histoire m'a vraiment mis mal à l'aise (je sais que c'était l'effet recherché) mais je ne m'attendais pas à tomber sur de la pédophilie décrite si crûement.

J'ai eu du mal à rentrer dans le récit, mais je pense avoir du mal avec la plume d'Atwoodmême si j'adore ces récits de dévstations qu'elle nous livre. Le passage du passé au présent était logique, mais m'a dérangée au final.
 Il était pour ainsi dire impossible de s'attacher au personnage principal, même avant la fin. 

Quoi qu'il en soit, cette lecture m'a bouleversée par les similitudes qu'elle a avec notre réalité, et par ce qu'elle cherche à faire.
 Je ne sais pas si je lirais la suite, mais cette lecture m'a beaucoup fait réfléchir. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Medical content

opossumble's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

violator's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic