Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

4 reviews

amberinbookland's review

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Rape, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Child death, Child abuse, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Pregnancy, Vomit, Blood, and Excrement

cassie_ellie's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, and Sexism

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Child death

maddiebusick's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Excrement, Rape, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit, Cursing, Blood, Kidnapping, Violence, and Alcohol

peytonktracy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This is a book I will be chewing over for awhile. We love a good morally gray book full of morally gray characters. This book has been described as a tense psychological thriller and I agree with the first two-thirds, but it’s more like a slow-motion tragedy than a thriller. We spend two weeks in the village where our protagonist has been summoned to stand watch over a girl who supposedly has been surviving four months with no food, but begins to collapse before the reader’s eyes. As the story and motivations of not just this little girl but the people around her begins to unravel, the impending heartbreak makes this a starkly agonizing read. But the ending was deeply unexpected for me, and while maybe a little rushed, also very thoughtful and surprisingly sweet. This book is about belief, in the end: what we choose to believe and why we choose to believe it, and how we can always choose to change. I think that message found me at a good moment, and I’m glad I happened to pick up this read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexism and Incest

Minor: Blood, Kidnapping, Child death, and Suicide attempt