Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

O Nascimento de Vénus by Sarah Dunant

7 reviews

th3bookthief's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Outing, Death, Homophobia, Torture, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Infidelity, Gore, Murder, War, Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail

frogtangerine's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Homophobia

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

It was rather boring and seemingly had no plot all of part one. The most interesting part was the prologue also there was a very graphic sex scene that was not pleasurable for anybody involved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Racism, Slavery, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Sexual content

katiefronk's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Murder

Minor: Vomit and Violence

alys055's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Vomit and Murder

Minor: Child death

contre_qui's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

1.5

It was fine. I was just expecting more. The view of queer/mlm relationships was bizarre to say the least. I thought the protagonist would maybe learn something about her views - and she kinda did, in that she decided being gay wasn't an outright sin - but she really didn't. It seemed more like a vehicle for her to make excuses about her own piety (or lack thereof) and extramarital relationships. There was also a disgustingly awkward, graphic sex scene. It was a rather dry book with a very odd take on queerness. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Clearly a book for straight women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Murder

There is a very graphic sex scene between a gay man and a straight woman. It's painful to read, probably intentionally, but there was a lot of detail. There is also a childbirth scene that's decently graphic/detailed, as well.