Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu

35 reviews

haleyburns0123's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

arufino's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicide, Sexual assault, Child death, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Abandonment

llorona's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Fatphobia, Rape, Child death, Body shaming, Excrement, Emotional abuse, and Blood

bekah_greenhaw's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Vomit

Moderate: Excrement and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death and Suicide

lorie266's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Child death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, Vomit, and Suicide

samithy's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad

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

4.5

The way this was written and punctuated was a hate crime to dyslexics. I forgive it a little though because it is a beautiful story of queerness, friendship, girlhood, and codependency. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

lilmisssouthernyn's review against another edition

dark lighthearted tense fast-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: Vomit, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, Excrement, and Body shaming

luca222's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

abbie_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

Tween girls being a tad feral - I know this word is overused a lot these days when a book is about women/girls doing things slightly outside the accepted norm, but to be fair, one of them does shit in a box and blame it on a dog. 

Abreu does an excellent job of conveying the atmosphere of a sleepy village in the Canary Islands, the heat of the summer, the volcanic landscape, the striking disparity that exists between locals and tourists. We follow two girls, Isora and Shit (yes, idk either), who embody toxic tween girl relationships. They constantly cross boundaries, obsessed with one another, then enemies, leading one another to dangerous situations, being each other's be-all-and-end-all, not speaking for days, weeks. There are physical fights, awful first sexual experiences, overwhelming feelings. 

And yet, all that, and I felt slightly at a remove from the text itself. I agree with some other reviewers that the girls often came across as older than they were, though I'm also aware that girls are forced to grow up quicker than boys. 

Crude and atmospheric, vulgar and sticky. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence

nervous's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

why was there so much poop?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault