Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Páradais by Fernanda Melchor

57 reviews

callmeleonie's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I found it really hard to read,  not only because of the almost endless sentences, but also because of the misogyny and the fatphobia. Although the main character was really disgusting and unlikable, I also could not stand how the description of him was mainly based on horrific fatphobic remarks. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Alcohol, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

marvizu's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Alcohol, and Stalking

kojo0o's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Rape

bookstagrem's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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? Yes

My heart is beating out of my chest and I kinda feel like I’m gunna throw up. I’m not saying don’t read it because wow was it a force but certainly don’t say I didn’t warn you because oof.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Body horror, Misogyny, Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Extremely graphic sexual assault descriptions.

__yvg's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Death, Misogyny, Violence, and Incest

car_crash's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Este libro explora cómo las intersecciones de pobreza, falta de educación, violencia familiar, machismo, soledad y abandono/pérdida pueden generar un entorno donde las diferencias sociales y cultura afectan la autopercepción y oportunidades (reales o percibidas) disponibles, lo que puede ser una buena receta para criar personas que llegarían a diferentes extremos por escapar de esa realidad de cualquier forma.
Mientras que hay un fuerte énfasis en las circunstancias y entorno que llevan de alguna forma al protagonista por un camino oscuro, sí encontramos menciones de la responsabilidad personal que este está dispuesto a reconocer (o no) por sus acciones, lo que es un punto importante que agradezco no haya sido ignorado. Tal vez la sutileza con la que este punto es tratado se relaciona con la propia percepción del protagonista sobre la inmensidad de las circunstancias que lo empujan a ciertas acciones, en comparación con su agencia personal, que por su misma historia tendría sentido que perciba como casi inexistente.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Incest, and Sexual assault

deborah_green's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Classism, Excrement, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

lauradvb's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Gore

opldxblqo's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? Yes

4.0

Disgusting, devious, delicious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Misogyny, and Rape

hukkelberg's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

What a sad little thing. It's just mulch. Irritating, frustrating, upsetting mulch. It paints a picture, spends so many pages painting a huge glance at the holes and corners of the workings in this country. The way its written, the huge sentences, steeps the text in a false sense of urgency that tricks you into thinking something's going to happen and then it doesn't, it never does. But it makes its point. The voice is this way because Polo's life is this way and it convinces you, as it convinced him, that this endless rhythmic drudgery is all that ever will be. He's barely present in the end, in his own mind, and that had the unfortunate consequence of making me as detached as he willed himself to be so he could process it. I started it yesterday evening, around midnight, and finished it now, not without it putting me to sleep thrice. It's a serious book, deals in serious matters, but instead of bringing you in, it makes you into the unengaged spectator of an avalanche of tragedies that so overwhelmingly supersedes the scope of action of its protagonist there is no moment you are tempted to commune with whatever it's attempting to speak on. It's like watching the news form another room. But it's not bad, nor is it dumb. It's just sad and little.

EDIT: Bumping this up half a star, not because it's any better, but because I just had to work on a place just like the one described here and I understood intimately, immediately, the feelings of the main character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Classism, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, and Incest

Minor: Child death and Death of parent