Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

59 reviews

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Police brutality, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Body horror, Infidelity, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Dysphoria

augustst's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Forced institutionalization, and Fire/Fire injury

linguaphile412's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Police brutality

Moderate: Rape and Death of parent

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Rape

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Deportation

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Animal death and Rape

ra22ouille's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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? Yes

3.0

My brain has been marinating in so many questions about identity, collective memory, and submission. The Memory Police deftly tackles slippery existential concepts and guided me through an exploration that wound downward into dark hole.
The characters were repulsive because of a deep fear that they stirred with their submission.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Minor: Rape

jediprincess's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

• 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? Yes

5.0

This is such a beautiful novel. I love how the world wasn’t explained -

why were the memory police doing what they were doing? No clue, other than the need for power/control. So with the characters not fighting back against them, that fact made the world even more haunting.

It kind of reminds me of Broken April. This will be a reread

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Rape

chaos_animates's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Grief

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Rape

drapetomaniac's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Minor: Rape

3eggomelet's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, and Police brutality

Minor: Body horror and Death of parent