Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

9 reviews

inkysplodge's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Violence, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Mental illness

oatmilkie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad

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

3.0

TLDR; 3 rating, it’s an anthology, and a couple of these were in the backs of the books already.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

Every anthology I’ve ever read has had hits and misses. Most of these, unfortunately, were misses. I love The Little Android, which is the one exception, but most of these stories were in the backs of the original books. The one with Cinder’s dad, for example. And when I said I wanted Winter and Jacin’s relationship to be fleshed out, I didn’t mean that I wanted Winter to be unwittingly a player in someone’s continued sexual assault. It’s icky.

I wanted more of the Rampion crew. I know there’s the graphic novels, but I wanted more like the wedding story, which was very short and very rushed, if you ask me. And the fact that Kai upstages it by proposing to Cinder? The story says there’s a time skip, but they both seem like the immature teens they were in the series. UGH.

Rating: 3
Would I recommend? No, you could probably find The Little Android and the Rampion wedding story online somewhere.

Content warnings: Body horror, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Ableism, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gun violence, Death of parent, Child death, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Medical content, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Classism, and Body shaming

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Violence, Classism, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Ableism, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Torture, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and War

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

prashiie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

“Cinders. Embers. Ashes. Michelle hoped that whatever strength had allowed this child to survive the fire all those years ago was a strength that still burned inside her. That it would go on burning, hotter and hotter, until she was as bright as the rising sun.”

This book is a great way to end the Lunar Chronicles! There were many moments that were shortly mentioned in the main story and this book elaborates on it further. Each story felt special as it focused on the main characters’ past and their experiences. In my review of ‘Winter’ I mentioned that I was less invested in Winter and Jacin and didn’t understand Winter’s decisions. The story ‘The Princess and the Guard’ made me change my opinion. Sigh, I do like them now and I finally understand Winter. 

I really enjoyed Thorne’s story. He’s such a funny character and is very smart. A typical Thorne moment right here >>>

"Last summer, he'd even managed to get the Santos family to pay him sixty-five univs for a box of "succulent, prize-winning" oranges, having no idea that he'd picked the fruits off their own tree earlier that day."

And there is one short story (Something Old, Something New) that takes place after the book ‘Winter’ and oh my gosh, so cute! 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Rape, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit

marenm's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

CINDER-KAI FANS ARE WINNINGGG

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Death, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.25

Nice prequels that answer a few unresolved questions. The epilogue was also much appreciated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death

chuckielittle's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Blood, Physical abuse, and Rape

Minor: Murder and Sexual assault

hckilgour's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

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

3.5

So as a companion book to the Lunar Chronicles, this is well done. For the most part.

The “origin” stories of Cinder, Wolf, and Cress were well done and provided information and insight on the characters. However, the ones for Winter and Kai were not nearly as well done or necessary.

Kai’s was literally just the opening of Cinder from his perspective. No new information was gained. No new storyline was introduced. It was just there.

Winter’s I feel like just wasn’t needed, except for the part about how she got her scars. The expansion of how Park abused the servant and how Jacin helped her through the hallucinations… we got all that from her book.

And then there was the android’s perspective. It didn’t relate to anything and it mostly just… was there. It was cool so see how androids became more human, but still.

The last story, which acted as more of an epilogue to the whole series was greatly needed. It put a nice little bow on everything and ensured they all got their happy endings.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault