Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon

15 reviews

maddamn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Another installment in the Cash Blackbear series. Just as heartbreaking as the first, if not a bit more so. Cash shows such strength and resilience. The author creates such a powerful story in a world exactly like ours, flaws and all. Pay attention to TWs with this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Body horror, Trafficking, War, Abandonment, Racism, Sexual violence, and Rape

kelseymcg20's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Kidnapping, Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, Trafficking, and Sexual assault

Moderate: War and Suicidal thoughts

rready's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

Moderate: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

autumn_alwaysreadingseason's review against another edition

3.0

It was great to catch up with Cash again. Good for her for advocating for herself to get out of those boring intro college classes, despite the racism and sexism of her professors. She's still a badass. 

I was glad that there was a little less pool, smoking, and drinking in this one because it got slightly monotonous in the first one. 

The plot is interesting, especially given the author's note. Basically, there's a bunch of super smart white girls going missing and are being trafficked. Cash wants to find out what's happening to these girls and ends up putting herself in danger. Rendon talks about how she decided to make the girls white to show how people outside of a group can care about the atrocities that are happening to other people and how that should be a model for MMIWG2S.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual assault

roq's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

unusualsnowunicorn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Gun violence, Child abuse, War, and Suicide attempt

amberk032's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Trafficking

Moderate: Confinement and Drug use

Minor: Child abuse

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

As a noir-lover, I immediately recognize Rendon's style: staccato sentences that build a world both viscerally real and almost claustrophobic through relentless layering of details calls to mind the best works of Chandler and Hammett. But unlike those authors' stoic white male protagonists, Rendon's Cash Blackbear is a study in protective dissociation. She detaches from her emotions because, historically, her life has sucked, and feeling and expressing emotions has led to nothing but disaster. Rendon's is a classic style indelibly informed by Cash's time, place, and identity. And, oh yeah, there's a mystery, but I read this series for Cash and her world; the mystery is almost immaterial.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Confinement, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Racism, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Sexual content, Mental illness, Blood, Drug use, Vomit, and Trafficking

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War

raineedayreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Rape, Racism, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Drug abuse and Alcoholism

amystark's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Trafficking, and Sexual assault