Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Stone Blind: A Novel by Natalie Haynes

205 reviews

_meganrose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

Two words: female rage.

For this being a retelling of Medusa’s story.. with her face as the cover.. you would expect her to be the main character. On the contrary, she seemed to only have presence in less than half of the book. That annoys me a bit, but I did enjoy the novel overall and the writing style.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Murder, Sexual assault, and Blood

goblinbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I want to preface this by saying that I am a major Medusa fan (if you can say that), but I truly really loved this book. 

The switching between many perspectives

(including her snakes and also some olive trees)

, made this ancient story still feel very fresh and interesting. 

The author also took a holistic approach and investigated all the surrounding myths that all contributed to Medusa and Perceus. Haynes obviously deeply cares about the content of her stories and I can't wait to read more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual violence, Murder, Confinement, Body horror, Death, Violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Grief, Misogyny, Death of parent, Blood, and War

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Grief, Gaslighting, Animal death, Colonisation, Sexism, Gore, and Physical abuse

alsbap08's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

photogenicegg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

jackiepreston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

maddisonsimmons's review against another edition

skipped around too much. i thought this was supposed to be a retelling of medusa's story but it skipped around so much i couldnt keep track of who was what and what they were doing. also, the writing jumped around a lot tone wise. some chapters were short and spoke directly to the reader by breaking the fourth wall and i hated that. tried really hard to like this book but i had to dnf around 40% because i couldn't keep track of anything and i didn't like the writing. also none of the characters were lovable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

hwerle's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

l0gi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Rape

Minor: War

dupi's review against another edition

tense fast-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

2.0

The author wanted to reflect about  profund topics but was very in your face about what she meant. Also characters were either evil and petty or good to the extreme. All in all, there was no place for the reader's own interpretation or subtlety...

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

carobeanz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.75

I found myself laughing out loud at the dialogue the author gave the characters, and I loved reading this retelling of a story I realized I knew very little about. A very fun read!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Rape, and Sexual assault