Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Inferno by Dan Brown

11 reviews

sam_gartley91's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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? No

5.0

Loved rereading this via audio! Good pace and pulling in the art history and current topics of world health even if pushed to some extremes some times. The variety of characters and perspectives kept you guessing what would happen next. Forgot how this book ended and it was exciting to read again. Interesting discussions of plagues and pandemics now after 2020. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Suicide, Sexual assault, Stalking, Violence, Medical trauma, Confinement, and Rape

bellabethabelle's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

many many misdirections and red herrings, so many that I got tired of them. could’ve been half the length.

also sienna said “pandora is out of the box” and i don’t think a woman of her caliber would make such mistakes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

katrinarose's review

adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

While extremely formulaic and eye-roll worthy, Dan Brown books are always entertaining with a huge amount of genuinely interesting historical information. I liked the twists and ending with this one more than the others, and the antagonist had a really interesting and valid backstory, unlike many other of his antagonists. I enjoyed it despite its flaws because I knew what to expect, but you’re looking for great character development or originality, look somewhere else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail

sofia_17's review

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, and Infertility

marialilypotter's review

adventurous challenging informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, and Rape

laurajones's review

adventurous informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility

Moderate: Suicide, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Excrement

Minor: Colonisation

llauren23's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault

mneex05's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use

tiemzahra's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

My second Dan Brown, and already I found a template of his story. 

This book was intriguing, too intense for my mild self. But towards in the middle, I simply couldn’t stop reading. Twists here and there,

couldn’t appreciate what they did for the movie, that Sienna was the bad guy after all, because in the book, what Sienna believed is more complicated.

I love that for a fact, this book features ambiguity in morality. What’s right and wrong, you could never say which one’s which. 

I might wait for a while before starting another Dan Brown. His books were well-crafted, but sometimes books of the same author with similar template put me off (eg. Murakami). But you could appreciate the intricacies of his story, like I was reading nonfiction in a fiction, if that makes sense. This book features the poet Dante and I learned so much of his life history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Mental illness

gomez_509's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault