Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Carrie by Stephen King

65 reviews

chig_flicks's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Miscarriage

arqueervist's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

keen's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Body shaming

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal cruelty

viljesvag's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Not King’s finest work, but a lot better than I expected! King has his uuh... mannerisms (you know, Guy Writing), so this being his first novel, where the premise is a teen girl discovering her latent telekinesis after she gets her first period...... you know? 

I really wish the formatting was better, though. I don’t think there is a single published version of this book (I looked at both digital and printed copies) where the intermingled excerpts from in-universe books/newspapers/etc are easily discernible from the "normal" narrative parts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Bullying, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault

isadorawonder's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

3.5 
Also lowkey listened to the musical while reading the end ✨✨

reread :
this book is just okay on my scale. my rating is low because i like the musical better and find the male gaze perspective to be really wack in the book. the characterization is weird, the descriptions are off, the pacing is slow, and the n-word is dropped twice so randomly. i do still like the big events that do occur in the book and the conclusions some of our characters meet. fun fact: the audiobook is narrated by the actress who played Carrie in the original movie 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault