Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

372 reviews

w0lfyfr3n's review against another edition

I was intrigued by the blurb, and the idea of three trans main characters seemed so exciting, but the way these characters thought and interacted with each other felt a bit too toxic to me. Furthermore, all the characters are distractingly horny at very inappropriate moments. I wanted to go further but this style of writing was just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Toxic friendship

gardenofeden's review

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deadnaming

Explicit SA scene that I wish I knew about beforehand happens early on in the book. It is on pgs

55-56

bookwrapt's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.75

oof, this was very heavy, but satisfying from a revenge standpoint

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Trafficking

zephyrlestrange's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

As a trans person, this book just absolutely missed the mark for me in so many ways.
Obvious criticisms (ham fisted self loathing, gender criticism, various -phobias and absolutely bizarre reduction of what could have been very interesting characters) aside, I found the pace and narration jarring, perplexing and glacial. The language was convoluted, writing paragraphs of how the scene looks but absolutely zero context with the people within it, I found myself having to double back a number of times to remember whose perspective it was because other than random name drops, you have no clue. 
I don’t know what it is about “it’s an apocalypse” that turns every character into a self loathing mope, juxtaposed with the one dimensional personalities. I thought the depiction of the women came across as Gooner level sex obsessed losers, and the single trans man in the book was petulant, whiny and self obsessed. 
I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to explore intersexuality but the author was much too busy writing some of the most depressingly fatphobic drivel, I finished this book out of pure spite to be able to make a well informed “this fucking sucked” review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, and Medical content

yodisborg's review

challenging dark funny tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Tense thriller that grips you by the balls and doesn’t let go. Compelling characters that you root for let down by a poorly plotted ending.  Writing is effective and clean for the most part but interjected with poor pop culture references or unnatural crass language that discordant with the rest of the writing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Transphobia, and Violence

bookwormteddy's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.5

this book is… brutal. i had to put it down and step away from it on multiple occasions. there’s a quote from it that says: “you were just afraid to be uncomfortable” and i think that’s apt. in part because of the visceral violence on page but more so the way this book challenged me to examine my own internal biases as a trans person who is exempt from transmisogyny. felker-martin writes with gut-punch frankness that’s both unsettling and extremely refreshing. i laughed and cried and was thoroughly nauseated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, and Cannibalism

jrosenstein's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

Violent, gory and disturbing in the best possible way. Felker-Martin does not shy away from the darkness in all of us. All of the characters eventually have to face the lies they tell themselves. There is a note of hope but it's slender and fragile. Not a book for the faint-hearted or weak-stomached.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

ghcstbats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Splatterpunk meets Wattpad. Parts of the book were good but i really had to slog my way through most of it. The pacing felt uneven and off for most of the book, whipping between scene after scene of high-action without much of a reprieve to really sit with it/the characters. The horniness and sex scenes through the plot felt oddly placed and I didn't care for how it was written/incorporated. It also felt like there was a very weird dichotomy between cis men & trans men through the entire book. I also didn't like that white people were rarely explicitly said as white (usually just "pale"), but POC are explicitly listed according to whatever the narrator thought (I really did not care for how Beth first described Robbie when meeting him). I'd like to think I'll come back in a few months and give it another try but it doesn't look like it'll be likely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Transphobia, Medical content, and Cannibalism

peachylite's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, Vomit, and Trafficking

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Cultural appropriation

rachaelwho's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Good! Weird! A LOT more graphic sex and less horror than I expected. Could've done with like 1 or 2 fewer plotlines to make more sense of the remaining ones; I thought it was just about over when I was roughly 65% of the way through, and maybe it should've been two books. The biggest mark against this one for me was the ways in which nonwhite characters' race was an afterthought in a way that it was obvious to me that the author was not aware of. There was a lot of mentioning that someone was Black but never mentioning that someone was white that is like, okay, so you are trying to tell me that this book is for white people? Got it. It really stuck out and rubbed me wrong in a story that was really reaching for diversity and coming up white. I wonder if they had sensitivity readers, maybe publishers don't want to spend time & money on that for debut authors. Anyway, it's a good read if you can get past that, and alllll the trigger warnings for women & queer people of all genders. Very cinematic, some interesting perspectives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Child death