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dobbyssocks421's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis
tanman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Gore
Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder
sexualedward's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Moderate: Misogyny, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexism, Kidnapping, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder
Minor: Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Grief, Stalking, Drug use, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Gore, Pregnancy, War, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, and Death of parent
ggcd1981's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Then there are the scenes with female characters….and everything goes to shit. Butcher’s objectification of the female characters is nauseating. Every female character but Murphy is described as a thing, as fap material. Personality, goals, their feelings, all of these are secondary to descriptions of the character’s lips, boobs, legs, hips. Harry is SUPPOSED to be “the good guy” and we are in his head the whole book, but every time he sees a female character, he becomes Creepy Harry, few steps away from sex offender. His descriptions of the women he comes across are so disgusting I just want to punch Dresden in the face and get all those women restraining orders against creepy Harry. It was bad in Fool moon but Dresden’s creepiness goes to new lows in Grave peril. It’s one thing to objectify adult women in Fantasy, I don’t like it but, since female authors also write Erotica is fair game for Butcher to write his boobs descriptions. However, it is NOT ok for Harry Dresden, a full grown male character, with years of experience under his belt, to ogle female characters who are implied to be teenagers. And he does that BIG TIME. Dresden calls them “kid” and proceeds to ogle their boobs, legs and hips in his mind. NO, just NO. This alone makes me want to kill Dresden with fire….but it gets worst. In one scene the girl, who is implied to be a teen, is possessed by a demon and the way Dresden and his ally deal with it is by sexually assaulting her as a “distraction”. Really Butcher, really? The way to “distract” the demon is sexually assaulting a teen girl who is already suffering trapped in her own mind. Dresden isn’t the one assaulting her, but basically “nice guy” Dresden lets it happen and after, comments on it and then brushes it off, with no consequences, and proceeds with his mission. There was nothing about that scene that was ok and I just want to punch the “I’m a good guy” speech out of Dresden’s mouth. Writing the sexual assault of a teen girl as been a “valid” strategy for the “good guy” protagonist to win was a conscious writing choice Butcher made, and that is f*cked up. By the end “Harry Dresden, the creep and pig” is “given” the other teen girl character as a “gift” for him to enjoy. This teen girl had been shown to be mentally unstable, but Creepy Harry does not refuse her because she is too young or because she is not mentally well enough to consent to this situation, no, no, no. Creepy Harry refuses the “gift” because he doesn’t like the idea of sharing a woman (reduced to a toy here) with the man that sent her to him. This Harry Dresden, the one that is borderline predatory toward young girls and allows his allies to sexually assault them “for the cause” can go f*ck himself with a cactus.
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Violence