Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

22 reviews

sha's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Infertility, Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Violence

headachesince03's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Addiction, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Infertility, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

linzlee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Death of parent and Police brutality

Minor: Miscarriage

schorlett's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual harassment, War, and Police brutality

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

pagesintranslation's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexual harassment

michaelsbirthday's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Terminal illness

laedyred's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I was strangely compelled to finish this book quickly, but I think that is due to some quality of the writing I haven't identified yet. The lack of quotation marks is strange and doesn't lend itself well to being a stylistic choice. Save one, I hated every single character. It seems we're supposed to be sad that

Michael is killed or that Cushla is finally free of shit abuse.

  There's nothing redeemable about the love interest. I didn't leave this book feeling sad, because the "love story" is just two selfish people who are most definitely not in love. What was the author trying to say? What were we supposed to learn? Belfast was violent? Yeah, we know. Cheating is bad? Obviously. I didn't hate the book, but I don't understand how it made it to the shortlist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

jennaz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I really enjoyed this book, though it took me a while to finish for some reason (I would read a good bit at once then put it down for a month). I love the writing style. 

The suddenness of Michael Agnew’s death caught me off guard, though there were hints that he was in some kind of danger, it was simply a single sentence about it happening. Wasn’t as dramatic (like having Cushla find him or something) than I would’ve imagined.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, Death, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

caitlin_123a's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual content, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, and War

Minor: Vomit, Body horror, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Blood

qqjj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Stalking, Death of parent, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Classism, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Addiction, Violence, and War