Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Madam by Phoebe Wynne

17 reviews

ajay913's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Child abuse, Stalking, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Racism, Suicide, Child death, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Abortion, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Trafficking, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Sexual content, Homophobia, Death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Confinement, Abortion, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

abbiemreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Bullying, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Gaslighting

elsebeok's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Sexism

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide

hmurff's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

Minor: Homophobia, Incest, Rape, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Racism

laurenleigh's review

dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

The premise of this is right up my alley. It’s got a creepy old boarding school for girls, a setting on the moody cliffs of Scotland, and lots of dark academia content focused on Ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The narrator was also quite skilled, navigating through lots of European accents. The plot was pretty well executed, but the characters fell quite flat, especially our main character. Her backstory was confusing, her relationship with her mother baffling, and her motivations mysterious. I couldn’t connect with her at all. I finally felt some connection to some of the students at the very end, but not enough. I just wish this novel got a bit more workshopping, a bit more editing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

caties_books's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Body shaming, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Minor: Abortion

lynette_reads's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Death, Suicide, Sexual assault, Confinement, Child abuse, Child death, and Classism

frecca95's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

ashlee_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness