Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

6 reviews

sparrowc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Alcohol

elizabethfaustina's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really enjoyed this! I think it’s underrated, as I’ve always heard that it’s long, slow, and boring, but I found the plot to be really interesting and the characters really awesome. And I love Dickens’s writing, especially with the occasional clever quips and the way he illustrates someone’s character so well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Nothing is inappropriate, but should be for a more mature audience, good for high school.

fireside_reads's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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On a reread for work (I teach a Law and Literature class), this remains one of my very favorite classics. Dickens’ characterization and humor is so good, and Sydney Carton rips me apart every time. If you only read a handful of works of classic literature in your life, this should be one of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood

Minor: Sexual violence, Pregnancy

milton's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

jowmy4's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief

Other content worth being aware of: grave robbing