Reviews tagging 'Rape'

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

77 reviews

amselot's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Gore, Torture, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, War, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Death of parent

c_hris_t_ine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

at first glance seems repetitive, but holds so many secrets and discoverables when thinkign about broad themes. amazing writing, confronting themes - treat with discretion and sensitivity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Racism and Rape

annalee95's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Torture, War, Death, Gore, Rape, and Violence

jaimeeslitlife's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, War, Blood, Death, Grief, Violence, and Torture

kaitlyng's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, War, Sexual content, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Mental illness, Colonisation, Grief, Cannibalism, Slavery, Rape, Racial slurs, and Kidnapping

Minor: Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Sexism

jessbooks777's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

tamingofthedew's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Kidnapping, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

fatimasiddiqui's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

basically the end was a psycho type situation which is interesting i guess but now seems cliche bc i made that connection

overall a really disgustingly harrowing book especially in the first half. its a hard one to rate because while it is really interesting its also not something i enjoyed reading at all because of three things: 
1. the writing is so repetitive even though its brilliant at times - i swear the book would've been 50 pages shorter if it wasn't so repetitive. 
2. my audiobook narrator was using the most annoying breathy voice to read the book 
3. the subject matter is so gory like i never want to read the word disembowelled ever again 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Cannibalism, Death, Rape, War, Body horror, and Genocide

awaywiththefairies's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

2.5

I was really hoping to get behind this story. A tale of war, grief, violence and a struggle to keep our humanity. This book fell short of my expectations to say the least. 

It's a short book but goes on forever. The story follows a character that starts to unravel after what he has done in this war zone though I see no struggle on his part to keep his humanity. Thought of as an animal by his forst behaviour, this seems to encourage him or even jsut make him give up and he begins to act and think like one. 

A random SA scene in it with glorifying language made me question why it was even in the book. I really dislike when authors do trauma for trauma sake. Perhaps this was to say the character has always been a bad person? One can only debate on that.. 

A book about a man who looses control, not much growth or plot happens other than that and I really don't know why its won the prize it has. Its well written, for what it's worth, but the unexplained or resolved addition of triggered content isn't something I can get behind.

I feel like it needed to be much longer to really express this character.  
Despite all its attempts to shock us, it was just a bit boring too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, War, and Torture

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Gore, and Blood

ncghammo's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Grief, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and War