Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

9 reviews

kittycaserine's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

This was almost a 5 star book but I found the ending unsatisfying. Which, perhaps was the goal. But I wanted real justice for this poor girl and that was ember received.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexual violence, Grief, Rape, Suicide attempt, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Classism, Torture, Abandonment, Violence, Child abuse, Self harm, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Sexism, and Car accident

alicelalicon's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Blood, Pregnancy, Racism, Car accident, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

Moderate: Sexism, Pedophilia, and Trafficking

eatsnacks's review

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Racism, and Rape

ashlefevre's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

gloriazthompson's review against another edition

adventurous sad 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Racism, Racial slurs, and Car accident

Moderate: Rape, Vomit, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexism

Minor: Trafficking, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Death, Confinement, Child abuse, and Abortion

thevietvegan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It is a tragically beautiful read. It’s simply pain upon pain but it’s still so hopeful despite how bleak it is. It seems so painfully unnecessary to put Nori through everything she went through. Do not read this story unless you’re ready for your heart to break multiple times.

Also trigger warnings galore. Like everything that could possibly have gone wrong went wrong. Like truly a fucking tragedy this book is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Vomit, and Xenophobia

yope's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual assault, Rape, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, and Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexism, Racism, Confinement, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Abortion, Terminal illness, and Infidelity

kylamunoz's review

challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was so poetically and tragically beautiful, it tore my heart out of my chest page by page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Racism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Sexism, and Sexual assault

gracew's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

I sure do feel like I read a different book than everyone else. This book is baffling because there are moments where I was enjoying it followed by chapters and chapters where I wasn't. The ending alone is enough that I almost bumped this down to a 2.5. It left me confused about what the author was trying to say. I think there was far too much going on and that the ending took away when it should have built up. There's threads that dangle and make no sense. There is a level of melodrama that I cannot tell if it was intentional or not but the result is that I felt annoyed by the constant level of extra this book had to offer. If the writing was less beautiful I probably would have outright hated it. But the moments that were good were so very good that I can't completely hate everything about it. So I'll keep it at a solid 3. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, and Rape