Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp

13 reviews

mpeach's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Body shaming

kds247's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

This book has some great moments in it. Definitely not plot-driven as I tended to focus more on the character rather than what was going on. It was perfectly messy in terms of the types of characters in it. Would recommend reading this during a part of your life when you’re not sure what’s going to happen next. Also VERY opera centered which I liked. My only complaint is that it drags on and the formatting/lack of quotations made it a little hard to read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual violence

aaron444's review

emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.75

i'm so sad wtf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Drug abuse

peckreadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

frannyrdclark's review

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

nzmerchant's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

Took me a while to get into this book because of all the parallels i could draw between the plot and my own life. But then I got hooked by how accurately the author was able to capture Anna’s thoughts and put into words things that i cannot - about trying to play the cool girl & the game of who cares the least in a situationship, feeling ashamed when recounting to people or thinking about the things you said or compromised for the sake of this other person. And i just feel so seen. It’s nice to know im not completely insane and has also helped me rationalise a lot of things.

Writing was v engaging and enjoyable too - sally rooney esque with the lack of quotation marks and all that jazz. A tad pretentious and can’t say I actually liked any of the characters but overall, a great debut novel and im looking forward to more sad gurl books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexism

Moderate: Toxic friendship

leahb88's review

emotional reflective tense slow-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

This book explored Anna’s relationship to art and her career as an opera singer, and her need for connection and belonging. She finds that in Max, a wealthy businessman who bathes her in the brightest sun and shades her in the darkest clouds. She contorts herself into a different version of a woman that each person expects her to be in order to navigate both desires and the classism she experiences in both. This felt like reading the thoughts and consciousness of the narrators mind. It felt very introspective and it really got me on the rollercoaster with Anna. I was so annoyed with her at times though, maybe that’s kind of the point of her whole character arc, growing as a person thing, but sometimes I just couldn’t get over my frustration with her. Overall though I was invested in my journey with her and I pulled lots of great quotes from this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Suicide attempt

sydapel's review

dark emotional reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.75

Was this book so incredibly stressful and frustrating I had to put it down for three weeks? Yes. Was it also one of the best and most intimately raw novels I've laid my grubby little paws on since reading Normal People for the first time? Also yes. 

I could talk about this book for AGES, the way it dismantles the myth of the "starving artist", it's depiction of the male gaze and how women subconsciously restructure themselves within it and before they notice, their entire identity is being written over, how obsessive we can become the minute we feel the least bit valued or seen or loved, the intersection of classical music and privilege, the often hypocritical nature of white feminism. I could go on and on. If you've been craving more Rooney esque characters and writing, I'm going to be shoving this one at you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Child abuse

onestephatatime's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

Moderate: Classism, Drug use, Alcohol, Infidelity, and Sexual content

angel_kiiss's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

For a while I felt like I wasn’t liking this book, but every time I stopped reading it was all I could think about. Gripping stuff

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Sexual violence