Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

53 reviews

corgi1221's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This was a great book! I loved the main character and her relationship with others in her situation is amazing. Personally I couldn’t picture the Moon and Steel castes, so more description would be nice, but otherwise a great book and I highly recommend😁

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, and Death

lottie1803's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Death, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual harassment, War, Homophobia, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Biphobia, Gaslighting, and Lesbophobia

jvalentine1386's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Slavery, Xenophobia, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, War, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content, Classism, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Rape, Alcohol, Pedophilia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cursing, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

izzyproudfoot's review

dark 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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, War, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

riverofstyx's review

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual assault

payneamorgan's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Classism, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Trafficking

jj_tj's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: War, Blood, Violence, and Murder

hollandjacobs's review

adventurous inspiring 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

I wasn’t sure about this book since it had a sexual assault warning on one of the first pages. However, nothing ever got too graphic, and really I think all books should have content warnings like that. Tv shows and movies do, comic books have ratings, and some of the online comics I’ve read have had content warnings - I can think of quite a few books I’ve read over the years where I really would have appreciated a few content warnings. So please, book publishers, follow the example of Girls of Paper and Fire, and start using them!

With that out of the way, I really enjoyed this book. It’s a poor girl being forced into a royal court but never loving it. So many books have girls quickly swooning over dresses and pastries. Not Lei. The world is really interesting, the characters complex, the stakes high - it’s a pretty intense book. It didn’t have a super strong chosen one troupe, really just a girl fighting for her own autonomy. Abuse is rampant, but never fetishized. Really I just feel like the author held the balance of all these complex issues really well, it was well written, and I’m definitely looking forward to the rest of the series! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Sexual content

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal death, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Slavery, Classism, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Outing, Medical content, Sexual content, Grief, War, Death of parent, Bullying, Colonisation, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Vomit

thekiwibibliophile's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Overall, this was a decent book. I wish some characters were more fleshed out but I guess that’s what the sequel is for. It was an interesting premise something’s lacking execution but overall a decent, if not hard, read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Slavery, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment