Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice

13 reviews

ketchuprene's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Rape, and Slavery

goldensisyphus's review against another edition

This book is not about consensual nonconsent, it is not sexy. It is literally about rape and brainwashing, and everyone -literally everyone - fails the female main character. It is the epitome of what is wrong with everything everywhere, and is exhausting and depressing as all f*** to read. It did nothing but disgust and anger me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Trafficking, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Sexual content

apetersen3's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Classism, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Rape, Confinement, and Physical abuse

dragonaion's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Graphic: Kidnapping and Sexual content

lilianmathilda's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

thefeministthumb's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Rape, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

aether_seawo1f's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

Anne rice cannot write sex well. It’s not that it’s like anatomically incorrect or anything, it’s just repetitive AF. Like someone read a textbook about S&M and applied the knowledge with all of the passion and creativity of someone doing math homework. It does not seem her protagonist has the ability or Knowledge  to consent frequently and overall it was creepy and not enjoyable 

Like a lot of the feminist retellings of fairytales choose to keep the implied or explicit rapes but use it to say something about or criticize the society that enables it. Anne rice is just like “it’s feminist because a woman is one of the abusers and my characters enjoy assault eventually”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Slavery, Torture, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

mximlay's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexual content, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

skygurr04's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Rape

callie4223's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

I don't know quite yet how I'm going to rate this book. Mainly because I'm unsure of my feelings toward it. I don't want to say that I enjoyed this book, but I also don't want to say I didn't enjoy it. I only read this book because Anne Rice writes it, and I know she's very popular with her Interview With A Vampire novel. For one, there is no plot, but I was so engrossed in this horrific story that I didn't care if it didn't have a plot or not. I will say that besides the horrendous sexual content, I do believe that everyone in the book overused spankings. That's literally all the book is. Someone somewhere is constantly getting spanked for something; it doesn't matter what. 

This book is my first by Anne Rice, and because of my lack of knowledge of the author, I feel as though I didn't know what to expect with the amount of excessive BDSM. 

I'm not going to tell you to read it or not. Do what you want. I suggest using personal judgment for a novel of this magnitude. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content