Reviews tagging 'Rape'

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

78 reviews

mudlark_s's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

okokapi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, War, Torture, Rape, Murder, and Mental illness

skeptista's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kanika_reads's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

Quite complicated and darkly twisted. It feels repetitive in the beginning with “god’s truth” at beginning of each sentence, and you want the narrative to move on. 
But when it does move on in second half, it flys by. So much packed in second half and so twisted still that it makes the gory details of first half pale.
A book that’s hard to forget .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Rape

bookhoe1's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Murder

Minor: Rape

callanisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense fast-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

3.0

Alfa, a Senegalese man from a small village, fights for France in World War I alongside his childhood friend. When his friend suffers a slow, agonizing death on the battlefield, Alfa grapples with impulses toward revenge, apology, and sadism. Diop centers an oft-overlooked band of soldiers in this disturbing novella that digs into the trauma of war. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Torture, Misogyny, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, War, Mental illness, and Colonisation

rugbygirlreads'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? Yes

3.0

The repetitive language, sexual imagery and casual description of rape detracted from the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Mental illness, Grief, Gore, and Death

jouljet's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Rape, and Racism