Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

131 reviews

thegr1mreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

blissofalife's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Bracken does a wonderful job weaving a new story out of Greek mythology and explaining background while not treating the reader like someone completely unfamiliar with the tales. No loose ends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Classism, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Sexual assault, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Rape, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, and War

Minor: Vomit, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Cancer

daniisrevding's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Torture, Rape, Misogyny, Vomit, Murder, and Cancer

remuslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Cancer

remy_32's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

aannaascott's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

an overall fun reading experience with a rich world and an exciting plot. i did find the pacing semi inconsistent, which was part of the reason i struggled to really get into the book at first. another thing is certain world building aspects weren't explained until later on, when i feel as though the story would have been more engaging if the stakes were established earlier on, before my interest in their mystery started to wane. i also think that the characters could've been better fleshed out because there are big points of interest for a LOT of these people, especially castor, but the villains in particular fell very flat for me. this person is a villain? what made them a villain? considering that lore mentions multiple times how the end of the archon would "free everyone", it seems kind of hypocritical to fail to recognize that in some of these characters, but oh, it's okay, because they are made cartoonishly evil/sexist/predatory so there's no room for them to have any depth or subtlety, and it disconnected me from the story. even castor and lore themselves often made me feel separate from the book, not only because they were walking archetypes, but because they were boring and inconsistent. certain plot points, characters, and ideas are picked up and dropped at will and it just makes everything feel messy. this book needed to be either split in two and fleshed out or severely pared down. so so so missed potential :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Pedophilia and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer

aeori's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Sexism, Death, Cancer, Misogyny, Death of parent, Murder, Rape, Violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

renharms's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Violence

sunflower_tea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

It’s written in a personal she narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Medical content, Body horror, Slavery, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Religious bigotry, Deadnaming, Suicide, Incest, Sexism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Bullying, Cancer, Hate crime, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, and War

Moderate: Body shaming, Car accident, Colonisation, and Adult/minor relationship

karly_ackley's review

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Pedophilia, Death, Child death, and Rape