Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

10 reviews

carlytenille's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

rhiannem's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The timeline jumping is interesting and engaging 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

just22jess22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Nuanced, mysterious, reflective and challenging- this book kept me guessing and second guessing until the very last page!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

hannahsnerdycorner's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? No

3.0

This isn't the kind of book you can enjoy, appreciate and ponder yes, but enjoy? Not really - at least I didn't.

The premise is good - a woman escaping someone from her past, then her sheep start getting brutally killed - but by the end I had more questions than I did to begin with, and only a few of the questions I had at the beginning were answered. 

I did really like the style/layout: odd chapters are the present, going forwards, and even chapters are Jake's past, going back in time. It was really unique and I liked how it made the story unravel - although the past getting further into the past confused me at some points and I had to keep reminding myself what was happening. 

I'm sure the beast attacking the sheep is a metaphor of some kind - I just wish I understood what for. The book felt kind of clunky, like it didn't all fit together and way it is presented is just long paragraphs and underdeveloped sentences - which again is probably symbolic of Jake's mind but I personally didn't like it.

There isn't really a filter; it's in first-person and she just says whatever she thinks, they don't censor the sex scenes (and they aren't pleasant, but not rape). This book is not for people who are prude.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual violence

kath_knits's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Racism, and Death of parent

miles's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Car accident, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

luxias's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Narrative is cleverly given in alternating timelines, one proceeding and the other working backwards so that main character is slowly illuminated and we can understand how Jake came to be the way she is. The only disappointing thing about the book is the lack of full resolution at the end. I think a couple things could have been cleared up at the close, there are almost too many loose ends to be an open end. Otherwise, a stark, devastating, and prickly novel. The main character does not overtly want to be loved but you do anyway. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

alison_massey's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence