Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Change by Kirsten Miller

49 reviews

pjj's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

All the stars! I listened to this one and strongly recommend it to connect fully with the characters and their voices in the audio. Misogyny, “good ol boys,” men running the world and sliding up the ladders of success while women struggle to make the climb. All come into play in the testament to women coming into - and grabbing onto - their own power. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Violence

trippalli's review against another edition

dark tense 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? No

4.0

The vengeance of strong women in this book take a magical turn as they uncover the murders of teen girls and uncover a web of evil abuse in their town they are seeking answers to and devising how to intervene and prevent further murders

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Murder, Violence, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Child death, Stalking, Rape, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

djbobthegirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Stalking, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Drug use, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Child death, Classism, Grief, Rape, Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, and Gaslighting

juanat77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Mental illness, Trafficking, Stalking, Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child death, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual content

prose_and_peonies's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.25

This book was a bit much for me. It is very heavy, even the parts we are supposed to cheer for. I think I was supposed to be happy at how the ending turned out, but I wasn’t. While this one localized issue was resolved, what about the rest of the world? 

I also had some questions that were unanswered. If other women like the three main characters exist and have existed for generations, how isn’t there a larger network of them?  

After certain characters were introduced I knew fairly quickly they’d end up being the bad folks, but I didn’t know how. I almost DNF this audiobook several times but I did ultimately want to know how it ended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual violence

shaykit's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, and Death

jessife's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

True crime style but with a mix of middle aged women with superpowers - will make you feel angry and empowered at the same time 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Kidnapping, Violence, and Suicide

nu_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely insane book. Loved the mystery element and actually enjoyed the characters so much that the flashbacks at the beginning weren’t too jarring, and when you get into the meat of the story they become so good. The description says it best that’s it’s a rage scream of a book, and while some women may not have had these experience there are a lot who have or know ones that have. The revenge aspect was very satisfying but it takes you on a ride before you get there!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Rape, Vomit, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

janaeq's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

I loved this book. I thought it had a great lens of feminism as the overtone of the book. This book could even leans towards misandrist which I don’t mind myself. I love that this book doesn’t shy away from vengeance as justice and women’s rage. It has a strong theme of justice by any means including revenge, murder and violence. I also enjoyed the mystery element of it all. I was

kind of surprised that Leo & Claude were involved but he was TOO nice

. I wasn’t too surprised though however I enjoyed that the author didn’t drop any hints to allude to his villainy because that always gives them away. I enjoyed would recommend. I’m taking a star because it was a little heavy handed on certain feminist points like daily scenarios that women experience. The kind of points that explain things that a woman reader would already know. So, it kind of explains itself a bit but overall I enjoyed. I would definitely recommend to people branching into feminist rage fiction 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Rape

maggienack's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A dark tale of women who have developed supernatural powers and how they use them to seek Justice for teenage girls who have been murdered. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Infidelity, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, and Trafficking