Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Outlawed by Anna North

89 reviews

noragoudie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a really interesting book, unlike anything I’ve read prior. I appreciated reading a western that centered around strong female characters, and I found many aspects of this book interesting and compelling. However, I think execution could have been better and there were iffy aspects about the core messages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Abortion, Racism, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape

louiseelizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Mental illness, Homophobia, Infertility, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Abortion, Racism, Sexual violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Incest, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Minor: Child abuse

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

maybe the most disappointed in a book i've been in a long time. queerness is made both accessory and token, and the story north is trying to tell in no way justifies the alternate history she's created for it. absolutely wild to me that you can set out to purport that biological essentialism is bad (but perhaps i'm giving her too much credit?) and then come up with a book that is... very much supportive of biological essentialism. even aside from my own icky feelings about outlawed as a queer person, so much of what north has done here feels like craft malpractice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Death, Grief, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical content, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Colonisation and Abortion

Minor: Incest, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, Animal death, Cancer, and Sexual violence

howdyjordan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Pregnancy, and Sexism

acemummerz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Infidelity, Abortion, Violence, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Sexism, and Misogyny

neens_m's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Racism

ehoustonmyatt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Blood, Death, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racism, Medical content, Murder, Infertility, Gun violence, Sexism, Violence, Transphobia, and Misogyny

sageysage's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I loved this book! Way more religious undertones than I expected but makes sense for the time period. The book did a great job of having an interesting premise and setting while also making the reader invested in the characters. Kept wanting to pick this up so I could know what happened next. Would definitely read a sequel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Murder, Confinement, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Infertility, Grief, Abortion, Child death, Chronic illness, Medical content, Incest, Blood, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Miscarriage, Homophobia, and Gun violence

illtakethenightshiftx's review against another edition

adventurous 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

2.0

Great concept, terrible execution. This is a book, that exists, that people can read, even though it feels like a draft.
Outlawed is the most boring book I’ve read this year. The characters aren’t fleshed out an Ada is a one-trick pony narrator. The characters had so much potential to be great, but they never had enough page time to make an impression. Also, there are simultaneously too many and not enough characters? What?!

There’s so much potential in this book, but it falls completely flat for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Abortion, and Miscarriage

alfarmer's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

Outlawed is a well written book that explores heavy topics (infertility, racism, sexism, religious bigotry) through the experiences of women in the late 1800s. I read this very quickly and I would recommend this book! But I did not realize that this book would focus on the past experiences of these outlaw women and not the thieving/crimes of them once they were outlaws. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide