Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

6 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Child death, Vomit, Torture, Racism, Grief, Genocide, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, War, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Death of parent, Death, Physical abuse, Body horror, Classism, Blood, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, Violence, Domestic abuse, Cursing, and Confinement

nightowl22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny and War

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.25

this would’ve been probably an objectively better book than the previous one and i would’ve preferred it to the previous books because of the politics, the fact that Elias and Laia aren’t near each other and i liked Musa and his city, but i just don’t fucking care. at one point i realized i just wanted to be done with this and i stopped paying too much attention. 

the characters have zero development and are so flat, the romance is fucking terrible and the narration is annoying as fuck. ugh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Slavery, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

scandinavian_queen's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Genocide

Minor: Gore, Physical abuse, War, Child abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Child death

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

lynne_a157's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING. The character development of each and every character is so complex, diverse and multi-layered. The plot-twists kept coming and coming and I never expected a single one. It was definitely the most intense, gruesome and dark out of the series but sets up the last book perfectly.  It is definitely my favorite so far into the series but each book just gets better and better and I feel like I am actually inside the Empire and living beside these characters and the crazy things that happened in this phenomenal book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Alcohol

this is a VERY dark and emotional book with very intense and sitrubing parts but so is the entire series as a whole. It deals with generational racism and genocide and violence and gore and a lot more but this is set in a roman empire inspired world.