Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

264 reviews

seren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

jcgirl1032's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Loved it! It was fast-paced, but very well written. Had me on the edge of my seat for certain parts. I suppose the ending is to expected, but there were some twists and turns that I did not see coming. Sophia is now one of my favorite characters! Be a light in the dark!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

meghansarmiento97's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

robin_nescu's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Rape

It was a fantastic read, this is what Wish (Disney Film) was trying to be but dummed its slef down to pretend it was for kids, despite the book not being for kids. I enjoyed this thoughly, it does feel like a drag to get through at certin points, but I still highly recommend especially if you love fairytale re-tellings, but made to be more inclusive and with a lot more of an important message or theme then the orignale. Please do yourself a favour and read it. 💙

sydthesciencekiddd's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.25

Don’t get me wrong I liked this book, I liked the idea, I liked the story, I liked (some) of the characters. But the way it was written was horrible. It’s written as a wattpad book made by 13 year olds. If this was a little wattpad book it would be higher but this was a professional edited book but an adult. I didn’t enjoy the main character for the first 3/4 in my opinion she was a horrible pick me that thought she was better than everyone. I liked her a little more at the end but she was still a pick me 😭, I think if this was rewritten it could be beyond amazing, like I said I love the plot. But at the same time it had plot holes and things that didn’t make sense but it was good, I rate it 2.25 ⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Toxic relationship

I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ERIN

bibbletje's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

It felt a bit flat. It had a lot of repetition and nothing happening in the middle. Then all of a sudden the whole story gets dumped by someone explaining the entire thing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

calamitywindpetal's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Murder, and Lesbophobia

fierygecko's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Cinderella is Dead surprised me with it’s world building; I was taken by the concept that Bayron presents of a world continuing on after a fairy tale takes place in it and the impact that has on society. While I really enjoyed this, I also struggled with how absolutely miserable the world is purely because I wasn’t expecting it. The story speaks very loudly about sexism and homophobia, which I think is a good thing. However, I also felt tired at the idea of another novel where being queer was against the norm and looked down upon. Additionally, some of the plot twists in the novel didn’t feel believable to me, which made the ending of the book feel kind of unsatisfying. I think if I had’ve read this when I was of age to be the target audience for this novel, I would have loved it. It asks the hard questions about what princess stories teach us about self-worth, and has an ethnically diverse cast to top it off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death and Pedophilia

Minor: Bullying and Trafficking

content warning for undeath, and gore involving undead creatures

bubblebot's review

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

already own two books by this author. what is one more hehe.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

alys055's review against another edition

It's leaning really heavily into misoginy and homophobia and It's not the vibes I need right now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Sexism