Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

28 reviews

helhas3letters's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Gore, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Medical content, and Pregnancy

mickraine's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Confinement, Bullying, and Body horror

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, and Excrement

arieslofi's review

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

1 star for the interesting premise. i would have been more fulfilled had i not read this book. i would have instead read something good, something not written by someone who took a creative writing course once and applied everything their teacher loved to their debut novel. i refuse to believe this was edited. had it been so, this would have been half of its actual length, if even that.
do you wish to read this book? truly? with your very stupid heart? okay. here's what the entire book is like, repeated throughout 200+ pages, as recreated by yours truly:
She was Nightbitch and she wanted to taste blood, to run free, to feel the wind in her matted, unbrushed, unkempt hair, dirt under her fingernails. She was a dog. But she couldn't tell anyone, they'd think she was crazy. Mentally ill. They'd think these doggy games with her son were abuse, or worse. The working moms didn't get it, so perfect, perfect teeth and perfect clothes and a perfect life she too once had, now down the drain thanks to the child. She loved the child. But she hated him too. She hated her husband more. Couldn't he understand her? Wasn't she worthy of his care? It made her angry, rage bubbling from deep inside her gut, near her womb, that sad, rotten organ. And with anger, she wanted to taste blood.
Just throw in a small and very obvious G-d stand in that is still explained to you, despite how obvious it is, that in the end doesn't truly matter at all (none of this book does, really).
TL;DR: Set back feminism by its lonesome. Congrats. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Sexual content

staghunters's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A wild ride!

For the fans of Mosfegh. Although I have to admit that I did not like My Year of Rest and Relaxation as much as this. Maybe because Yoder really works with the characters and lets them act in ways you don't quite expect. The pace is lovely, and the action and moments of reflection flow quite evenly as well.
My biggest gripe was that it felt a little bit lost after

our main character truly becomes Nightbitch

. What drew me to the book was the exploration of that unease with a changing body, as well as its metaphorical use as I kept reading, but this seems almost completely abandoned, or at least handled more as something that just *is a thing*, until the very last section. 
Speaking off, I did not understand that part entirely, but in this case, absurdism and magical realism made up for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Sexism

erikwmj's review

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexism and Body horror

kaitsarago's review

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Sexism

sar_a_i's review

mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Gore

foxmulders's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

this must be what it means to be an animal, to look at another and say, i am so much that other thing that we are part of one another. here is my skin. here yours. beneath the moon, we pile inside the warm cave, becoming one creature to save our warmth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexism and Body horror

Minor: Sexual content

kylax2's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Excrement

the_savannahhumphrey's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror