Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

41 reviews

ajthequeen's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

1.5

Only stuck with it to the end bc I found out there's going to be a limited tv series and I wanted to see why people think so highly of this book and I'm completely at a loss bc I DON'T GET IT. Easily one of the worst decisions I've made reading wise. It's got a huge Stephen King vibe except this book is so boring it's criminal! It's the end of the world through the eyes of privileged, first world middle-upper class people that I didn't give one f%ck about. (which is probably why this book and now many dystopias have me side eyeing them bc I read a tweet (can't find it anymore and don't remember the author:( some while ago that said dystopias are basically white and/or privileged people's fears of things to come that actually have been the reality for colonized, poor and disadvantaged Black and POC for hundreds of years. I honestly hadn't seen it that way and well now I'm having difficulty with these books especially with this one that was so bad!) It was aiming for some grand scale philosophical poignancy that I'm most likely too dumb to get or it was such a fail on the author's part bc this book is a colossal waste of time. I hated it.

The only parts I can't hate bc they were kinda decently done were Jeevan's subplot and the fallout of the pandemic which was so eerie to read right now. But everything else was atrocious. The characters are not interesting. They are flat and lifeless as hell I didn't care for any of them at all. The prophet thing was added to shit on religion only bc it didn't add much else and was easily dismissed like nothing. And what was that about referring to most of the characters by the instruments they play? The few ideas or subplots that might have flourished this book were lackadaisical and left incomplete. But what honestly bugged me the most was how improbable everything felt to me. Not the disease or whatever but the aftermath. This book basically treated humanity like unthinking husks who will just sit by and let everything rot and die bc “omg we no longer have twitter!!! How will we ever be able to communicate and thrive and live without it?!?!?” Which makes this book annoyingly very fiction and to me very unrealistic in the human ingenuity aspect and not what I signed up for. (ok so it didn't want to be a hopeful book for the most part but girl, humans are stubborn and really do think and create and recreate even the worst of people. Unless of course it was aiming at critiquing our dependence to technology and that we fell away from our hunting-gathering roots and capitalism has us f*cked up but I don't think that's what she was going for lol)

I thought I was gonna be in my feelings reading this, the characters and plot were gonna feel surreal bc hey! I'm in the middle of a pandemic too and well...Just not a good book for me. I honestly can't believe this is gonna have a tv adaptation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent

sp2's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence

dopamine's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and Infidelity

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault and Adult/minor relationship

linaanderson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Violence

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

whatellieread's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

While at its core this is a post-apocalyptic/dystopian novel, this book is about so much more. It's very character driven, and it ultimately a narrative about the ways we touch each other's lives - sometimes in the most unexpected ways - and the marks we leave behind.

I first read this circa 2016 (I was 17), and have recently just reread it. I don't tend to reread books normally, but I could remember really loving this one and could remember very little of the plot.
I had low expectations the first time around as I didn't expect it to my "thing", but I was very pleasantly surprised and LOVED it. I regularly talk to people about this book and use it as an example of why reading outside of your parameters can sometimes be the best thing to do. 

A few plot points came back to me as I started rereading, but mostly it felt as though I was reading a book I hadn't read before. Although I didn't end up loving it as much this time as I had the first time around, it was still a really good, enjoyable read and one that has a special place in my heart - for the aforementioned reasons. 

Seeing as it's set in a post-pandemic world, in which a virus has killed most of the population and civilisation has collapsed, it was interesting to reflect on it in a way I wasn't able to previously, in light of the last year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

daydreamdarling's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

lunarliz's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a wonderful book. I am very glad I read it, one I could read many times and always find something new in it, though it will never be the same as reading it the first time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Blood, Confinement, and Violence

bookishbutch's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

What a beautiful, poignant novel! It's, at its core, a love letter to the power of the arts and the bonds and love between total strangers who are just as scared and lonely as you. All in all, a lovely book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Suicide, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Domestic abuse