Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

7 reviews

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

In some ways it felt like an improvement from the first book, as unbelievable as that is. I enjoyed it so much. I would recommend this duology in a heartbeat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Misogyny, Blood, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Confinement, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Stalking

cameronmh's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gun violence, Alcohol, and Cursing

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Classism, and Misogyny

Almost all of the negative content is in the past. Marion has escaped (

at least by the second chapter when she kills him

) a toxic relationship, which is where a solid half the CWs come from. Most of the violence is during the book, and there is lots of very consensual sexual content, but all of the pregnancy and sexual abuse stuff is in the past. The whole thing is a big hurt/comfort fanfiction, basically.

water_violin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, and Forced institutionalization

the_crooked_neighbor's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book. Was it revolutionary? No. Was it a feel-good read that had me blushing the whole way through? Absolutely. It was delightful to continue in this series (would not recommend as a stand-alone) and have such a similar vibe to a book I loved last year while having an engaging and new storyline. I really hope we get at least one more book in this series even though I feel like the ending did leave me satisfied. Great book- will most assuredly read again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

kers_tin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Dementia

Moderate: Murder, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

bisexualwentworth's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is officially vying with The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics to be my favorite historical romance.

Here are some general things that I enjoyed:

• Bisexual Robin Hood
• Georgian setting (I’m getting really sick of most historical romances I read being Regency)
• Cat
• Kittens
• Discussions of privilege and money and how to use wealth for good
• Stealing from bad people
• Horses
• Classics
• Rob and Marian are very enjoyable characters and I very much enjoyed them together

Sex- and relationship-specific things that I liked:

• This is the first romance I’ve read between a cis man and a cis woman where PIV sex was not part of the equation
• And they had a LOT of sex of all sorts of varieties
• Rob’s general subbiness was fun
• I loved the way they negotiated consent and talked things through
• Great handling of both characters’ bisexuality but especially Rob’s

Things that I didn’t like as much:

• Does Rob inherently have a stepmom thing because of this book? Also what is he to Eliza because oh god the family situation is convoluted as fuck
• This book was really bad at locations. I felt like I never knew where the characters were until halfway through a scene and I’m not really sure what went wrong there 

I liked this more than book one and would read more books featuring this band of chaotic queer highwaymen. If Betty doesn’t get her own book with a sapphic love interest I will riot (please Cat Sebastian, prove that you are capable of writing a full novel that’s sapphic. I believe in you and will like you less if you don’t).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Gun violence

Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Blood

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Sexual violence

penguinsquack's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Dementia, Confinement, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Kidnapping