Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Out by Natsuo Kirino

7 reviews

didyousayrysha's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Gore, Sexual assault, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Body horror, and Violence

yungblonde's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Torture

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Chronic illness, Cursing, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit

celbl8o's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual content

purplemind's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

 Nonostante la sua lunghezza, questo è un libro che si divora; o, forse, è il libro a divorare te, obbligandoti a voltare continuamente pagina per scoprire cosa succederà poi. Nonostante la quantità piuttosto elevata di personaggi rilevanti per la trama, nessuno di essi viene lasciato al caso, anche grazie al fatto che il punto di vista della narrazione varia da capitolo in capitolo. Oltre che un eccellente thriller, Le quattro casalinghe di Tokyo è anche un’affascinante finestra sulla società giapponese post-bolla economica, specialmente per quanto riguarda le varie categorie femminili che cercavano di navigarla. Peccato per il finale un po’ affrettato e che non chiude tutte le parentesi narrative aperte per lasciar spazio a due scene

di stupro

che, più che scioccare, lasciano, a mio parere, un po’ perplesse.
 (traduzione ottima, con le adeguate spiegazioni che potrebbero essere utili a qualcuno poco esperto di Giappone) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Addiction, Gore, Sexual content, Ableism, Blood, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Misogyny

alexalily's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Racism

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

alexmso's review against another edition

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

4.0

I don’t think I’m able to review this book.

Im still trying to come up with an adjective for this book, but I’m unable to. If in the near future I’m able to come up with a review, I may share my thoughts.

To say that this book shocked me is an understatement.

Tw: rape, violence, murder, abuse, domestic violence, prostitution, alcohol and tobacco consumption

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Violence

unfiltered_fiction's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

1.5

This book provoked a very mixed reaction from me, and I think it's fair to say that I would have reviewed the first half of it in much more favourable terms. It's the second half which I felt lacklustre and gratuitous in many ways.

It's a pacy and energetic read that I moved through quite quickly. I found each of the main characters developed a distinctive personality quite quickly, and so - despite frequent jumps between their perspectives - it was fairly easy to follow each thread of the narrative. However, this is not the kind of book you should reach for unless you're thoroughly prepared for a story with no sense of redemption or relief; each of the characters relentlessly and continuously gets worse as the book progresses.

For the first half of the book, I wasn't sure if I was impressed or horrified by how committed the author is to making each of her characters thoroughly repugnant - there is none of the flair or charisma you might expect from characters in a crime novel. It's very clear that whilst you might sympathise with some of the characters and their motives, you are not intended to fully side with them. I think this works well in the book, and one of its strongest aspects is the critique this allows of both human nature and the social context of the book - the characters are each deeply and clearly affected by their social position. The impacts of sexism, racism, and classism are all key themes, and are generally well explored.

My real problem with this book lies in the Lolita-esque deep dive into the psychopathy of the rapist and murder Satake.

His belief that the women he brutally assaults tortures, rapes, and kills feel pleasure at his actions - and perhaps even love him - is absolutely sickening. As this is a crime novel, this choice could be darkly fitting, if it weren't for the way that the author represents the scene at the crux of the novel from both Satake's perspective and Masako's. The author presents Masako as actually having an empathetic understanding of Satake's psychology even as he was doing the most foul and violent thinks to her, which felt completely unacceptable. The way this scene was represented both times was horrible and completely unnecessary.

Overall, I felt the plot lacked resolution. I did like the very end scene, and felt that the story ended at a suitable point, but there was so much left unresolved

despite a last-minute spate of character deaths.

There were also a fair few plot holes, including

how we never find out who the original "pervert" is that has been preying on the factory workers.

Elements of this book were well done, and most of it feels very skilful. However, it is absolutely not one I'd ever recommend to another reader, on account of how poorly I feel it deals with rape culture, paedophilia, and sexual abuse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, and Violence