Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

48 reviews

iuvmoonie's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Misogyny, Trafficking, and Sexism

emlela's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Physical abuse

Minor: Cursing, Grief, Animal death, Classism, Lesbophobia, and Sexism

The girls are forced to become concubines to the king, so there are scenes in which the characters are forced into sexual situations.

fireheart_2010's review

dark sad fast-paced

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

2.75

I am giving this book a low review because it’s literally centered around romanticized sexual slavery and it’s disgusting. Writing is great and so is the story development but I hate the plot of this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Animal death, and Sexism

sma_tsol06's review

dark emotional tense medium-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? No

3.5

It's interestin  how it connects  several social problems such as misogyny, sexual assault, abuse , bullying etc with the magic of the world and the behavior of the main characters when they deal with these problems 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

shelbyrodger's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Grief, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, and Lesbophobia

spaghettii's review

I genuinely hate this book so much. It was marketed for being lgbtq+ which was why I decided to check it out in the first place but that was definitely a mistake. The main character is basically forced to be a prostitute and there are themes of sexual assault and bestiality

I really wanted to love this book. It was recommended everywhere as an LGBT read, and I was sorely disappointed with borderline bestiality and sexual assault. Wtf

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Rape

cakeylu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

I fell in love with this book immediately. The world building and lore are solid and brilliantly written; the characters feel like complex, whole people who really inhabit this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Classism, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Rape, and War

sadie_honey's review

adventurous dark emotional 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: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Rape

Moderate: Death of parent and Violence

Minor: War

reading_rainbows's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I got through this book, barely.  Queer content starts a third of the way through and is forbidden. It's forbidden because of misogyny and classism and not homophobia though so yay?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexism, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Confinement, Classism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

dododenise's review

challenging dark tense slow-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

4.5

While it took a while, this book sucked me in. A beautiful and rich world, so well described that I was living in this magical world the last few days. The characters needed some getting used to, but once I did, I embraced and loved them. All of them were so carefully crafted and given beautiful depth. All the while a wonderful forbidden romance blossomed in the middle of it. 
The story was a difficult one, but drew me in even more because of it. I suffered with these characters and fought with them. I definitely want to continue the series and keep on fighting with them. I desperately want to know where this world and its characters will go. 
Unfortunately the book at the typical problem of a high fantasy book: a slow start with a lot of world building, making it incredibly hard to be drawn in. It probably took a solid 100 pages. I would’ve given this book the full five stars if it wasn’t for the rocky start. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Death of parent, Blood, Sexism, Alcohol, Homophobia, Violence, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Grief, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: Infertility and Fire/Fire injury