Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Outlawed by Anna North

21 reviews

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Medical content, Transphobia, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Blood, Lesbophobia, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Cancer, Miscarriage, Rape, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

acemummerz's review

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Infidelity, Abortion, Violence, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Sexism, and Misogyny

sageysage's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I loved this book! Way more religious undertones than I expected but makes sense for the time period. The book did a great job of having an interesting premise and setting while also making the reader invested in the characters. Kept wanting to pick this up so I could know what happened next. Would definitely read a sequel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Murder, Confinement, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Infertility, Grief, Abortion, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Incest, Blood, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Miscarriage, Homophobia, and Gun violence

moonvest's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

GOTTA check those content warnings, folks!!

This is objectively a good book, but it was just more yucky than what I can handle right now. I was promised “lesbian cowboys” but it’s largely about child death and grief. Which is, you know, a trigger for me.

You’d probably like it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Violence, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abortion, Death, Grief, Incest, and Infertility

Minor: Animal death

lovejasmine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

The biggest problem with this book is that it could have been so much better than it was. It could have been so inclusive and intersectional and diverse, and could have been a beautiful, in depth story of marginalised people coming together in a world that hates them.

Instead, we got the barest hint of that, with a very self centred, very white narrator that was, honestly, kind of boring.

The worst thing about this book was it wasn't bad. It just could have been incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Abortion, Blood, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Violence, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Animal death, and Chronic illness

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Death, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Racism, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Outing, Infidelity, Body horror, Gun violence, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Incest, and Abortion

aliteralhobbit's review

emotional 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Infertility

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Gun violence

readinghavoc's review

adventurous emotional informative fast-paced

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

4.5

I had a really good time reading this. It felt like exactly the type of thing I needed to kickstart my end-of-year reading/get me out of a small reading slump. It was exciting to get to see so many diverse types of queerness and identity in a setting where those histories are often erased. This novel managed to get a lot done in a short space while not feeling overly rushed. 

I'm really fucking upset about Lark, though. Who would have guessed I could simp so hard for a man? I'm still mourning his life with Ada in Pagosa Springs. I do wish there was more of a clear build-up to Ada being ready to take over Alice's surgery, but I also think given the pace of the book, it was still really well done. 

Yay for queer cowboys! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Outing, Gun violence, Abortion, Ableism, Homophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Excrement, and Incest

markedwithanm's review

adventurous medium-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: Infertility and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion and Incest

laurenaf's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.25

This was a good and quick read. I enjoyed the idea of the book, but I honestly was not expecting the author to take this route in the story, based on what I read in the blurb- which made it interesting. I enjoyed the characters and the plot, but I do think more depth could’ve been given to both to create a more immersive story. 
My biggest problem with this book is I had a lot of difficulty with that immersion aspect. Unlike other books I’ve read, I can easily imagine the setting or the characters. And while the author has great descriptions, I still wasn’t able to picture a lot of what was happening. 
While I loved the characters, they are also detached from the reader in a way, where you know a little about them but not enough to create a connection. 
For me, this book was only a 3 star until I got to the last quarter of the book where a majority of the action took place, which also could have been elongated. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Suicide