Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

36 reviews

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, War, Death of parent, Body shaming, Bullying, Slavery, Sexual content, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abortion, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

rlisle's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

Great fictional Biopic. Makes you have a better understanding of that time period and the trials Geisha went through.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

emily_y's review

challenging reflective slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: War and Blood

Minor: Death of parent and Abortion

claudiashelf's review

emotional 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? Yes

3.5

❝ Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. ❞

I was very much looking forward to reading this book because it promised to be a classic history about Geishas; I hadn't read anything with this theme before, but it turned out to be just — alright. In some ways, this novel underwhelmed me since it included rather graphic sexual scenes that made me sceptical and uncomfortable. This book kind of emphasises why. Well, I believe this book is well-researched yet also provocative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Adult/minor relationship

cienmari's review

sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, War, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

satsukiq's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

disturbing but well researched and kind of comforting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and War

raven9346's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: War

greenan26's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Sexual assault

Moderate: Physical abuse, Bullying, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, and Adult/minor relationship

lycheeteareads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, War, and Child abuse

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

emmaeleone's review against another edition

I will edit when I get the book to see how far I read. I ended up not finishing this novel due to after conducting research on the author and the subject, discovered that the novel was based on a real life geisha who was to remain nameless. The author, supposedly, still revealed the name of the woman despite assuring that she would remain anonymous. I plan on reading her account on her life rather than this fictive one! That information ruined the book for me, but without knowing this it was an interesting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Trafficking