Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

320 reviews

chiar_'s review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Classism

kate_lemer's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.75

Is there any contemporary fiction book that I do not hate? The start of the book is irreverent, vulgar. It is a fresh writing style, a catchy beginning but gets old very fast. 

One quickly learns that Irina is very angry at the world, in an obnoxious, “stump your foot like a spoilt little child” way. It is entertaining in the beginning, but unfortunately, devolves into pure condescension for its sake. The author leaves us with nothing more to her character. Irina summed up in one sentence? It’s not my fault, honest. - not a direct quote but should be. 

It is woke-ism for its sake, but a very hypocritical one at that. I lost count of how many times Irina mentions men looking girly - a textbook example of internalized misogyny perhaps?

While I doubt it’s truly the case, this book reminds me of a very bad knock-off of the Russian Doll TV series. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. The hair, the name, the too on-the-nose vulgarity. However, where there is a point to the writing of the Russian Doll, I’m struggling to find anything in this atrocity. To paraphrase Irina - I have no sympathy.

By the time I got past the halfway point, the mere existence of this book started to offend me. I saw a glimmer of hope two thirds in where Irina started to descent into a bout of psychosis, trying to track her past which her mind had terribly skewed. I have to admit, the descent into madness was well written. Descent into madness might be the wrong word for it. It was the slow realisation that you were already mad to begin with, and you lied to yourself about it - Irin tells fantastic stories, in the original sense of the word. Finding the pictures in dvd cases was a very nice touch, very sixth sense-esque.

Unfortunately, that’s where the tension flopped. By the end, one does not reach any satisfaction from reading the book. A waste of time, getting the score it gets only for the part mentioned above.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Terminal illness

mystica_martin's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

I am not sure how to feel about this book XD
It's dark, explicit. There's a lot of gory details, masochism. The characters are unreliable, manipulative and gaslighting. But there are somethings I liked about the book. The way the FMC'S sexual desires and her sexualizing gaze is not glossed over by the author, almost like a role reversal, where it was mostly men's gaze and desire for women. I also liked how the author did not give them (the characters) a sudden realisation and pull them out of their downward spiral. 
Overall, I believe that is a very realistic work (except for some parts).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

unknownportrait's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

if American Psycho was an English lower-middle-class queer kink photographer…

unhinged narrator who’s truly an awful person navigates a disturbing downward spiral. 

it’s fast paced and i absolutely demolished it. i’m interested in reading more from the author!

make sure to read content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm and Sexual assault

Minor: Pedophilia

woweewhoa's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book! I'm personally a big fan of stories about terrible people constantly stumbling against one another, and that what this book is. Irina is a complicated person, but she is also an Awful person and the first chapter of this book does a very very good job at situating it and making it clear. It is a very uncomfortable read though, and I would definitely take a look at the content warnings before picking this book up. 

Also, and this might be a bit pejorative but I genuinely think it's well executed and a very good take on the ideas and how their adapted to suit this story, but it's like if the movie American Psycho was about a lower middle class English queer woman kink artist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death and Antisemitism

bookmaddie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

dark and twisted as fuck but quite interesting… ending felt a bit flat? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

06_daisy's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Toxic friendship

kajsavi's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

4.0

A very strange experience to read about a female protagonist who is just so incredibly unlikeable and awful! I liked it a lot, in fact, though I found parts of the book difficult to stomach. Feels odd for a written woman to be this kind of violent and self-obsessed narcissist. Not easier to read than a male character with the same vibe, but I'd say it's a more well-rounded experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, and Sexual content

takin492's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

pema_'s review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

genuinely addicting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Rape, and Vomit