Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

77 reviews

izypup's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

While there is a lot of content warnings for this book, it’s a lot less graphic than what it seems to be made out to be when I saw reviews. It is primarily an insight on the effects of being desensitized/over-exposed to disturbing media online than about discussing the disturbing media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Antisemitism, Sexual content, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Violence, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Bullying, Blood, and Racism

kproc381's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.25

I hate to say it, I didn’t love this book. I found some parts engaging but others a bit boring. It felt like a black mirror episode that was thrown out because it lost its original plot. I would have loved for them to go deeper about the harm the company causes the employees, instead we spent too much time on a toxic relationship. It had the outline to be great… but was not. The harmful language also did not do anything for the book. It was just for shock value.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Racism, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Self harm, and Racial slurs

rgs's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Violence, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Child death, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

emilyatthelibrary's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, Antisemitism, Self harm, Racism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Body horror, Islamophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

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aliceloyallaleon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Stalking, Antisemitism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Rape, War, Biphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Genocide, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Self harm

maryfranvs's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, War, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Self harm, Blood, Body horror, Antisemitism, Eating disorder, Violence, Drug use, Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Death, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Homophobia, and Murder

woweewhoa's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

An interesting book where I understand that what it's trying to do is show the different ways that being a content moderator, in the vein of the extreme conditions ie facebook, affects people and how lack of proper support alongside forcing a certain 'performance in the workplace' at the end of the day destroys them in all the ways it can. 
It's an interesting book to think about, especially now that I'm finished with it, but I don't think(and it's not meant to in all fairness) it's enjoyable to read at all, and I kinda wanted to get the experience over with. It does help that bit as the book isn't very long or complicated and, aside from content, is easy to read. 
Dunno. Had mixed feelings about this book but land more positive than negative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, Stalking, Drug use, Racial slurs, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Racism

Minor: Fatphobia and Body shaming

rosalind's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Self harm

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

stareaten's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.25

the thing about this is, this was advertised to me as a fucked up horror, so i spent a good portion of this book waiting for something vaguely paranormal to happen. but as it turns out, it is an exploration of the effect which longer exposure to virtual violence might have on our psyche as well as a short look into unhealthy relationships. so I definitely was not prepared for this type of story and for me it was just depressive, i feel like some depictions of violence were unnecessary and thrown in for shock value, and the ending kind of felt abrupt. i usually love it when stories don't spell out everything for us and make us connect some things on our own, but this one felt like the whole fuss at the beginning was too much and the lawsuit was actually not connected to what the protagonist did. that being said, it is apparently based on real things that happened in similar work places and i don't want to go into spoilers so i just want to say if you want a story about how bleak people can get when exposed to terrible environment, this is a good meditative piece.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Racism, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, and Antisemitism

mollieweitzman's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

I actually really enjoyed this. Definitely disturbing and messed up but I was intrigued the whole time. I honestly wanted more!! This is oddly the lowest rated book I think I’ve ever read but it really wasn’t bad y’all!!! I am absolutely slayinggg reading these short little books to hit my end year goal haha

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Xenophobia, Suicide, Antisemitism, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Islamophobia, Stalking, and Gaslighting