Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

103 reviews

capybara5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Cursing, Gore, Death, Murder, Torture, Sexual violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Misogyny

qog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

I had to force myself to finish this book. First, it was hard to follow what was happening. The first half of the book, I had no idea what the storyline was. Eventually I was tracking and there were a lot of interesting stories, characters, worlds, etc. But what made it very challenging to read/finish the book was the overwhelming amount of extremely graphic, often sexually violent scenes, along with overly sexualized content, involving all ages. So much extreme violence, sexual violence, sex/genitalia descriptions, etc. It was too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Gore, Rape, Child abuse, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Torture, and Sexual content

starrynight's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Violence, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Death, Cursing, Pedophilia, Excrement, Sexual content, Gore, Rape, and Sexual assault

apersonfromflorida'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, War, Blood, and Body horror

cozycoterie's review against another edition

It's a harsh start with a shifting narrative perspective and graphic details of child marriage and SA

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

kaseyd's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to like this book, but finishing it was an absolute chore. I knew very early on I disliked it but powered through to give it a chance. The audiobook was 24 hours long and truly maybe six of those hours were actually necessary to the plot. So much of this massive novel was unconnected random stories that were gross, repetitive, and a drag. I fell asleep listening to this, didn’t go back to listen to what I’d missed, and at no point was confused because nothing in the entire hour I slept was actually important to the story. I hate when authors think that for their fantasy to be taken seriously they have to make it disgusting, crass, and disturbing to read. This book is not worth all the time it takes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Cursing, Sexual assault, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

Minor: Body horror, Ableism, Slavery, Confinement, Homophobia, and Cannibalism

mielenmaisemia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Rape, Torture, Death, Gore, Child death, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

zmcma13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexual content, Body horror, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Incest

haddy'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

It took me 15 months to read this book. A lot of it was quite a slog, I didn’t understand nearly anything that happened, and honestly I just think I’m too stupid for the way this book was written?? 
Having said that I have SO MANY feelings about how it ended !!?!?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Rape, Misogyny, Body horror, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

bookishchef's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Almost impossible to rate. The author is trying to tell a story in a new way (new in book form anyway).

However, it was as confusing as could be and I often lost track of who was supposed to be who. Eventually I gave up on remembering any of the characters. 

Also: trigger warning for every single bad thing under the sun. There's sexual assault and graphic rape scenes of kids, women and men. There's murder, cannibalism, gore and lord knows what else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Death, Cursing, and Homophobia