Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Flores Cortadas by Karin Slaughter

115 reviews

cma048's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

3.5

Very dark, but fast paced. Relatively predictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

bethanybreton's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

Oh my god. Incredible, but extremely graphic and disturbing. Not for the faint of heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual harassment

kmnva's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

I hated everything about this and how scary it was. It definitely felt like the author was going for pure shock factor most of the time. So this was scary and disturbing and worst of all utterly predictable. The setup was slightly confusing enough to where there is an air of mystery until you understand how the characters are associated. Then I - who am usually awful at predicting - could tell where the entire story went. But I thought there is so much of the book left, there’s no way I’m going to be right about this. But no I was they just took a long and loquacious road to get there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

cupcakemama's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

taylorbmlogan's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Very graphic.

hanlov's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Doing this on audio and not checking trigger warnings first probably didn’t help my experience, but this wasn’t really for me. It was overly graphic and the pace really fell off after about the 30% mark when you could just already see everything play out like a Criminal Minds episode. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jcampos33's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

This book was incredibly heavy, violent and very explicit when describing the abuse. The scenes with murder and post mortem depravities were extremely graphic The story itself was also my worst nightmare

chelsm123's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

A very good book, but oh my god look at the TW before starting.

kdoornbos's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

2.0

The writing and plot were compelling enough to draw me in - enough that I felt I needed to finish it. However the gruesome descriptions of sadist rape and sexual torture made me queasy and gave me nightmares the first day after finishing (TBD if these persist). Even some of the plot towards the end is extremely disturbing and gruesome. Saw this in a “kindle unlimited” suggested and would not recommend to a lay reader unless you regularly read horror. No idea if the authors other books are similar but I won’t be finding out - this one crossed a line. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

gddog93's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

This book was horrific, I loved it. Every single trigger warning, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction