Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry

14 reviews

sabrinz's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

It took me a bit to get into the story, but once it hooked me the pages kept turning and I wanted to find out who had killed the boy in the woods and what mystery revolved about the Horseman.
With this book, Henry cleverly weaves in the story of Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman, while giving the tale her own spin that makes for a very satisfying end in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent

typedtruths's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.25

sadly, not my favourite christina henry. a little flat. easily could have been a novella. i think it would have packed more of punch that way

▷ Representation: Ben (mc) is a trans man.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Death, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Death of parent, Pedophilia, Body horror, Grief, Murder, Child death, and Blood

➸ Trigger warnings for period typical misogyny and transphobia, misgendering and deadnaming, attempted rape of a minor, minor body horror, blood and gore depiction including the mutilation and decapitation of the murdered children's bodies, grief & loss depiction, death of a son/father from self-sacrifice recounted, death of a daughter-in-law/mother from illness recounted, and death of a grandmother and grandfather (on-page), murder.

voilajean's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Child death, Bullying, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

izzybell's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Transphobia, Death, Violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Child death, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

steffi_23's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.75

Demon’s transphobic, I don’t respect this demon

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Violence, Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Gore

Minor: Sexual assault

wlreed312's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Deadnaming

thebechdelbitch's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

2.0

An interesting story but terribly written, so much monologuing to explain things which we should have just been able to see. Took a gamble on this and wanted a spooky Sep/Oct read but it was just garbage and I ended up feeling SUPER frustrated the entire way through. Also, be warned for lots of deadnaming and terrible treatment of trans folks (accurate to the time period but still unpleasant to read) - didn't earn all of the graphic

sexual assault

scenes either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Deadnaming, and Transphobia

atamano's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cannibalism, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Violence, Transphobia, Animal death, Death of parent, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

gaynerddemon's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Deadnaming, Child death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault

lisaalovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Sexual assault, and Deadnaming