Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

56 reviews

kamichameleon's review

medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape

amberjackonski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Rape and Child death

gracekatreads's review

Yeah, there was no need to show a rape scene multiple times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

alexandragriffin's review against another edition

This was the second try for this book and I just can’t do it. 

I just can’t do the constant misogyny, abuse, and just depressing tone of this book. While I understand London in the 20s wasn’t a great place for women, I just couldn’t keep listening and hoping the main character would kill herself to reset her life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Abortion

helenab18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, War, Sexual assault, and Rape

gjepps's review

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Death

funktious's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This has been in my TBR pile for years - it came out in the years I wasn’t reading much but I was always aware of it and figured I’d enjoy it based on how people talk about it. And I did, to a certain extent - I really enjoyed the first half, and the Todd family and Fox Corner. The between the wars years have always been interesting to me. I liked Ursula a lot and I particularly enjoyed the periods where she seemed to get stuck

like the Spanish Flu and the Blitz

and seeing how she got out of those.

I was very satisfied when she pushed Bridget down the stairs, and when she punched Howie in the face.

But the second half dragged; maybe I’ve read too many blitz novels but those chapters went on forever. And in the end, I found the whole conceit just… depressing. I get that there’s no 'right' way to live your life, and so many different ways a life can go. And I really enjoyed reading the different variations and seeing how the choices Ursula made played out. But making her more aware of it each time? That just seems a recipe for madness. Or possibly enlightenment; maybe she'll reach nirvana?

In the authors note at the end of my edition, Atkinson said she wanted to write a novel about 'Englishness’ and I think she achieved that very well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Rape

mandi_lea's review

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Abortion, Child death, War, Rape, Physical abuse, Animal death, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Violence, Sexual violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

akvolcano's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-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? N/A

1.5

 Honestly it just feels like the author put all the drafts together and made a book out of it. It feels like it’s the same story rewritten over and over again, with slight changes. Wouldn’t recommend reading. The book itself is an interesting concept, but it was not executed well at all.

When I read that the main character has multiple lives, I was excited! But the character doesn’t remember their past lives. And recantation is mentioned twice in the book, but both times are offhand and not really a big deal/significance. Pretty disappointed. I also couldn’t find any of the characters to be lovable, it feels like I barely knew them. Also-idk if it was just me, but the amount of graphic violence and/or uncomfortable topics was completely unnecessary  to the story line. Perhaps two or three would have been consumable, but dang not this much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cultural appropriation, Miscarriage, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Domestic abuse, War, Genocide, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Ableism, Colonisation, and Pregnancy

shadymist's review

dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, and Child death

Minor: Suicide attempt