Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

That Summer by Jennifer Weiner

17 reviews

dejathor28's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The book was interesting and a bit predictable at times. I give it a 4/5 due to the misleading nature of the preview. The preview is presented as “fun” and “funny”, there is nothing fun about

rape and marital abuse

. Overall, I did enjoy the different mother/daughter relationships and the importance of friendship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Stalking and Suicide

Minor: Homophobia

summmerose's review

challenging dark hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Panic attacks/disorders

katgent's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia

deirdre16's review

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

See trigger warnings - this is not a light beach read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

debbierg's review

challenging sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Misogyny

rishel's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Misogyny

stampest's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Alcohol, Rape, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Death of parent, Classism, Cancer, Antisemitism, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

isalovestheocean's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Cancer

hpazlink's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Misogyny

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Suicide

kdowli01's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This was not at all what I expected! I went in thinking this would be a light, fun women's fiction beach read. It ended up being really dark, with really important messages about consent, gender roles, privilege, and identity. 

Synopsis: Daisy Shoemaker, a homemaker married to a successful lawyer, makes friends with Diana Starling, a consultant whose similar email address leads to them connecting. Daisy is excited to make a new friend, but Diana did not enter her life by accident.
 
*Trigger warning*: Rape

I've seen a lot of negative reviews, but I actually really liked this one, even though it was so different from my expectations. It was suspenseful, had such a great message, and I thought it did a good job of handling the conflicting feelings all the characters face as past secrets come to light. And I LOVED Daisy's daughter Beatrice, she was just such an impressive person and I loved how true she was to herself. 

I did have some negatives - sometimes the alternating timelines made it hard to figure out where we were in the story. It got repetitive at times. And I didn't love the ending. 

But overall I still enjoyed it a lot (more than Big Summer actually), and would recommend, as long as you're not expecting something light! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Misogyny