Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

5 reviews

mskingbean69's review

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Sexism

mme_carton's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Child death, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Bullying, and Cursing

spark_879's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

the story wasn't honestly that bad once i got into it but there are also a lot of problematic things so i can't rate it any higher for that reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexism

• comparing hunting and having painted faces and long hair to savagery; refers to a group of the kids as "savages" countless times (not sure what category it would fall under so i didn't tag it) • fatphobia: one of the kids is called "piggy" for the whole book because he's fat, and we never learn his real name. • sexism: every single character in the book is male. one of the characters also mentions not reading a book because it was about two girls.

sunny_not's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

This was super stressful. My stress levels were through the roof the last 30 pages. It's very dark and brutal (check the content warnings before reading this)  . I thought this was very smart, highlighting humanity's worst sides and putting a twist on other island stories. Although I enjoyed it there were many of its time elements which is the reason why I didn't give it a higher rating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Death, War, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Gore, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Torture

gabrielleclarke05's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Toxic friendship, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail