Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

3 reviews

bailey_the_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

Challenging and weird and very, very grim at times. Climate change, reproductive freedom, and so many other issues are right at the surface here. Gorgeously written and hard to put down, but also tough to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, Pedophilia, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

lesbianclerics's review

This book really made me ask myself questions and think. Questions like, "where do we draw the line between dark content and torture porn?" And "At what point is a book so feminist it wraps back around to misogynistic?"

Erin Swan has somehow managed to pass both those points. The first few chapters had me hooked. I was rambling excitedly to my mom about how much i enjoyed the writing style, and I'm generally a fan of books which jump back and forth in time.

Then the uncles got weird about Moon. Then I realized Bea was 12, not 17ish like I had assumed. The final nail in the coffin was Paul's first chapter. I realized that the only thing I cared about at this point was Bea's time in the hospital and her recovery. I read Paul's chapter, barely, but it was so boring i mostly skimmed it and the one-paragraph description about how the doctor basically just gave up on Bea. I decided to follow suit and gave up on the book. Unfortunate, because i really did like the writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Drug use

Moderate: Incest, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: War, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Most of the things in the moderate list barely slipped out of graphic just because it is described in metaphor and HEAVILY insinuated rather than explicitly described. It is very obvious though, and this is just what i got to in the first 115 pages.

jojo50's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.5

Weirdest book i ever read. Engaging enough that I didn't want to stop reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Kidnapping