Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

9 reviews

simonlorden's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

Bess is a witch's daughter during the witch hunt, a doctor during Jack the Ripper's murders, and a doctor during the first world war. Those were my favourite parts, the lives of people in these historical periods, although the book was darker than I thought it would be. There's multiple explicit sexual assault scenes, as well as bloody murder and adults and children dying of the plague.

I have two pet peeves with this book that I couldn't get over while reading:
1. Idk what Publishers Weekly is on, but an immortal woman living linearly through 300 years is not time travel. This is not a time travel story.
2. The blurb in the book says the present-day timeline is in 2012, but in the book it's actually 2007.

These are both small things, but they felt like kind of lazy mistakes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Blood, Death, and Murder

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

3.0

This book wasn't bad but it wasn’t great either. I was bored at times and I don't remember much of the book, but I remember being frustrated a bit with some of the choices being made. Don’t even get me started with Bess having a romance with an on the page rapist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexual harassment and Toxic relationship

taelajoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Murder, Stalking, Death, War, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Torture, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and War

madeline_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

The problem with this book is not that it was bad. It is that I read it within a stones throw of Addie LaRue. A time traveling romance of sorts with a woman that can live forever? Unfortunately compared to my experience with Schwab's haunting tale this one did not stand up. 

Things of note: I do not like how each stop in time with Bess resulted in her falling in love, and then having that love dashed. It was repetitive and there is more to a story than being in love (Jack the Ripper was happening and she was more worried about the men in her life!) And, it is a shame that this book fell back on men assaulting the main character over and over as a plot device. It gets boring and is no fun to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexual assault and Gore

cattails's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexual harassment

phoenixfaie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

justme_emily's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape

barbsantos's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

I don't know why this book has no warnings, it has explicit sexual violence and assault. 
That's not the reason why I gave 3 stars though, the book is kind of meh. Throughout the story we don't feel that the antagonist as bad as the main character feels, we hear about the bad things he does, but the emotion is not there. Also, what is his motivation? Is he bad for sake of being bad? What does he do when he's not after Bess? 
The time we spend on Bess past feels like a waste of time, the story is always the same: Bess is happy then Gideon shows up and she disappears again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Rape, and Sexual assault