Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

6 reviews

dreamerfreak's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Classism, Infertility, Child death, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Murder, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, Sexism, War, Misogyny, Racism, and Violence

jujunutberry's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

monstrouscosmos's review against another edition

4.5

I really like NK Jemisin as a rule, and these short stories are largely no exception. a lot of heavy themes were tackled with a focus on individual and community survival and connection. I admit to struggling through a lot of the stories, and skipping a couple that ended up having triggering themes/events. I extremely enjoyed the stories connecting peoplehood to places, that's a theme in Jemisin's work I love to return to! I don't know if I'll reread this one, but I'm glad to have read it the one time at least for sure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Kidnapping, Death, Sexism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Racism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Child death

charlie_borowicz's review against another edition

5.0

Information about stories with sexual assault/content below

The Brides of Heaven has explicit sexual assault. 

The Storyteller's Replacement has some weird sexual content at the end. Not explicitly consensual, and since it's written in the second person I felt a little gross reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence and Sexual content

serotiny11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

leannj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 This will probably go down as one of my favorite (if not my most favorite of) anthologies.

Overall Average Rating: 4.15/5 stars

Final Individual Ratings

The Ones Who Stay and Fight - 3.75/5 stars
The City Born Great - 4.5 stars
Red Dirt Witch - 5/5 stars
L'Archimista - 4/5 stars
The Effluent Engine - 4.5/5 stars
Cloud Dragon Skies - 4/5 stars
The Trojan Girl - 4.25/5 stars
Valedictorian - 4/5 stars
The Storyteller's Replacement - 3.75/5 stars
The Brides of Heaven - 3.5/5 stars
The Evaluators - 3/5 stars
Walking Awake - 5/5 stars
The Elevator Dancer - 4/5 stars
Cuisine de Memoires - 4/5 stars
Stone Hunger - 4.25/5 stars
On the Banks of the River Lex - 4.25/5 stars
The Narcomancer - 5/5 stars
Henosis - 3.5/5 stars
Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows - 4.5/5 stars
The You Train - 4/5 stars
Non-Zero Possibilities - 3.75/5 stars
Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters - 5/5 stars 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Homophobia, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence