Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

As raparigas que fui by Tess Sharpe

126 reviews

kamilla112's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Blood, and Emotional abuse

leahkarge's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Chronic illness, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Vomit, Gun violence, and Abortion

jorgilusty's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Things I liked:

I have mixed feelings about this book. There’s things I loved and things the author did that just really got under my skin. Maybe because it was a YA it just wasn’t giving what I needed.

-fast paced, tense, needed to find out what happened
-interesting premise/love a good con
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Things that I didn’t like: 
-I feel like Nora is supposed to be a morally grey character but I think it was overdone and she never actually worked on her flaws much minus one therapy session we got a peek into
-give us more about Lee!! She was my fav but we just got vague hints about her past and that bothered me
- the author using trauma as basically three characters whole personalities. like, I get it but it just seems far fetched to me 
- moral platitudes and virtue signaling from the author that gets gets old fast. I feel like she just took a bunch of sensitive topics and threw them together and it just left a lot unsaid. like, if you’re going to write about these things you should take the time to flesh them out properly and not just throw every single sensitive topic ever  in for the sake of being “woke” or whatever.
-open ending that left a lot to question. At least there was assured mutual destruction that makes it more palatable but still, would have been nice to have it wrapped up 
- a love triangle with 0 hard feelings or jealousy? I don’t know, it’s a little too trope-y and convenient for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Sexual harassment and Abortion

lisalangstrumpf's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Abortion, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

kayladaila's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Blood, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Murder, Misogyny, Grief, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, and Religious bigotry

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Death, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, Gore, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Rape

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

holy_coconut's review against another edition

dark emotional 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: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Child abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping

Minor: Abortion

goldyyy's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Body horror, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Car accident and Adult/minor relationship

aproudmc13'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual violence, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death, Rape, Abortion, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Biphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Murder

jayecard's review against another edition

dark 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

4.25

 I thought this book would be 80% con schemes and lying and smart manipulation, and 20% character, or so. The book is more like, 20% con stuff (which is ok), and 80% character, which is to say 80% horribly abused and traumatized teenagers finding ways to deal with it (which is done extremely well). It's a very fast read, style is alright, with the most difficult parts of the content done damn well. But check the trigger warnings for sure, the heavy stuff caught me off guard for real.

tl;dr: Full ass recommend, but check content warnings first

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, and Alcoholism

Child Sexual Abuse and horrible handling thereof by the parent