Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

1111 reviews

graceliza's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Torture

enbyaddams's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

standby907's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book took me for a ride and I couldn't put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexism, War

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content

clownfectionary's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, War

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, Grief

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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RAGE. 

This was a reread via audiobook. I think the audiobook definitely lends a different tone, somehow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

champagnerain's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, War, Classism

Moderate: Torture, Murder

Minor: Rape

akinahsj's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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

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This is the mist PERFECT book I’ve ever read. I bought it on a whim because it looked interesting and I would have NEVER guessed it could be this spectacular. The writing was so incredibly satisfying, it never made me feel stupid or stuck and was SO engaging.

Reading this felt like watching a movie. The battle scenes were incredible and intense for literally being words on paper. It is on PAR with actual movies with how dramatic it is.

The plot in this had me HOOKED. Everything felt deliberate and so genius, there was never a part in the book where I was particularly confused about what was happening.

This was the most articulate and impactful representations of a Male dominant world and every thing that the Main character did I rooted for.

TRIANGLES ARE INDEED THE STRONGEST SHAPE!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, War

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment

ashwoodbooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Wow! I loved this book and immediately reserved my spot for Heavenly Tyrant at my library!

Wu Zetian is an angry and vengeful girl who is set out of fighting against her misogynistic society. Li Shimin is a sweet boy with a dark past who is just doing his best to survive in a world that doesn't want him to. Yihzi is a gentle boy with a restrictive father in a world of high expectations and different dreams.

Placing these three characters together in the way that they were made me so giddy, I just wanted to scream. There were so many twists including a major one in the epilogue!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Sexual violence, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent

The military actively points loaded guns at the heads of the characters while threatening to shoot them for a good chunk of the book. If that is triggering for you, I can not recommend this book.

nova_selachii's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma

Minor: Confinement, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia

oiwb's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I found myself wanting more of most things - more world building, more character building. The major plot points were there but getting from point a to point b was a bit awkward. Plot twist at the end was predictable, but it was a fun read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, War, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity