Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Leopardo Negro, Lobo Vermelho by Marlon James

166 reviews

j_e_n_n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Sexual content, Child abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Incest

alawrence's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

5 stars for being one of the most original fantasy books I’ve read in years. 5 stars again for dear Tracker, our narrator, who captivated me with his brutality and his sweetness, just like his story. Fantastically done. James is an expert. 5/5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Rape

bitter_critter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Pregnancy, Confinement, Excrement, Child abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, Addiction, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Rape, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Sexism, Grief, Body horror, War, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, and Cursing

joelette's review against another edition

There was a rape early on in the book. I try not to read books with that trope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

tiannaedwards's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.75

The book was beautifully and artistically written. But it was just so much story for me. There were stories within stories and things I considered tangents. Again, beautifully written. But not my preferred style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, and Fire/Fire injury

bayrayj's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

Crazy bonkers bananas thrill ride from start to finish. I can barely remember where this book started but I was invested in all 620 pages of this adventure. It was very strange at points in the best way. The characters felt endearing. The monster felt genuinely creepy and the stakes kept getting higher. The voice of the story didn’t always feel consistent, fluctuating between what felt like a historical voice to a more modern or silly tone. But none of it got in the way of an epic adventure and beautiful landscape. Highly recommend for those trying to start reading longer fantasy stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Slavery, Blood, and Rape

eliasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

5.0

This book was incredible. I've been telling people it's "LOTR if, instead of taking place in vaguely medieval Europe, it was instead set in vaguely medieval Africa," but that really doesn't do it justice.

The other reviews are right that it deserves every trigger warning under the sun, but this is the best high fantasy I've read in a long time. The characters are all so interesting and well fleshed out, the writing (though not always easy) is engaging because it's perfectly in the protagonist's voice, the plot is twisty and turny... It's basically perfect.

All the seemingly disparate story elements end up being relevant. If you get through the first hundred or so pages, you won't be able to put down the rest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Incest, Child death, Slavery, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Sexual violence, War, and Animal death

Moderate: Homophobia and Vomit

Minor: Islamophobia, Racism, and Cannibalism

sujong127's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Incest, Death, Sexual assault, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

fravenwood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

1.0

What is this man's obsession with

rape and pedophilia

???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Sexism, Rape, Sexual assault, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Child abuse, Murder, and Child death

octoberharbor's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

I did not enjoy the narrative voice of the book. I understand the point to have an unreliable narrator and hearing the story from his perspective, and I see we weren't always supposed to like, agree or support why he did the things he did, but their was just something grating about the style. I had to keep forcing myself to engage, even though I did really like the journey and was invested in seeing the main character overcome his trials and personal bias. He used his trauma as an excuse for his sexiest attitude toward women which, again we weren't supposed to agree with it, but it was still annoying. I did emphasize with the main character's anger at times, his bitterness towards his culture, family, upbringing, society in general. I saw how that bitterness soaked through to the bones and cut him as deeply as he tried to hurt others and push them away. I loved seeing him  find love after struggling and losing it was devastating. I think if the narrative device was different I could see myself definitely picking up the next book, but for now I don't see myself having the time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Homophobia, Mental illness, Death, Body horror, Abandonment, Violence, Child death, Child abuse, Sexism, Rape, Grief, and Gore