Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

25 reviews

peytonliveslife's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

literaryliaisons's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Child abuse, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Self harm, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Animal death, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, and Rape

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Torture

bakerreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Body horror

gymbeannz's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

2.0

 This book, including the author, is everything wrong with the world.

The most disconcerting thing about Any Man is that it is written by a female.
To think that a female would have any clue what it feels like to be a sexually assaulted male is beyond me. And to think, she attempts to do it... what... seven times? Sevenish different men? I can't even remember. And all in first person, or from emotion-based poetry.
Based on this alone, I realised I couldn't take the novel seriously.
And I was correct. It's not made to shed light on the male's point of view.

Uncomfortable as it is to say, while the novel's purpose is to somehow promote feminism, I suspect it also acts as therapeutic revenge porn for the author. That's... concerning to say the least.

Maude is never caught. Her single communication with the press is a four page list of rhetorical questions that would make anyone feel like a guilty slime, even the reader! We learn she's never been abused, she does these things... for fun. My assumption then? She hates men.

I don't mind a character hating men. We get all sorts in this world and their point of view is a rare and interesting one. But I just can't shake the feeling that the author approves of Maude.

Amber Tamblyn turns a book about male rape victims into a "lesson" about female sexual assault. To be honest, the attempt to connect the two is very impressive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit