Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

15 reviews

klamsc's review against another edition

so much rape and gratuitous sex. I was icked out so I had to stop

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Bullying, and Adult/minor relationship

em33l1's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Wouldn’t recommend. I can see how it could’ve been something actually worthy of being called an author’s “magnum opus” but the execution just wasn’t there for me. On to the next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

zandria's review against another edition

While a fantastic book I found it to be very graphic. There are no warnings about the content in the book and it wad often very abruptly presented in the story. I wanted to continue, but I found scenes and content difficult to handle without warning they were coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Addiction, Sexual content, and Self harm

natalieanya's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Not what it says it is

hilbertscurve's review against another edition

1.5

Painful read.

But honestly I should’ve known it was gonna be a sex cult that one’s on me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

oliveseidler's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Blood, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, Sexism, Death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

sophmcgraw's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Rape, and Torture

machen27's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It's curious to me that this is described in it's "blurb" as a magnum opus, a book about cults and those who fall into them. Perhaps I'm missing cultural context or I didn't read it thoroughly enough, yet I can't shake the feeling that if this is the pinnacle of Nakamura's work, I am not interested in reading his other works. It very much is a story that happens to the protagonists, filled with disjointed flashbacks and dumps of pseudoscientific philosophical nonsense, I found it hard to care about the characters or what happens to them. I think that this is somewhat intentional on Nakamura's part, the plot of the story reflecting the experience of falling into a cult, and I credit the author that. I also struggled with the choice to include gratuitous amounts of sexual content, of which there is much, both consensual and non-consensual. It felt unnecessarily and frankly unrealistic, though I'll admit I have no factual basis for that sense. As for how the book ends,

I found the escalation to an international crisis including conspiracies to engineer this crisis juxtaposed with the idea of it all being done for no reason completely unearned, especially with the protagonist having a seemingly peaceful ending

. Ultimately I think the book failed to grab me because I have no interest in the main subjects of cults, and found that there was little real mystery here, just confusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Gun violence

cheyraisin's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

jet_nebula's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death and Violence