Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

129 reviews

wormgirl's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Confinement, Vomit, and Blood

bookmindedmag's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, and Vomit

frankieclc's review against another edition

2.0

unfortunately think this will be a rare occasion where the film is better than the book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, and Racism

lizzym126's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, Suicide, War, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Racism

Minor: Murder

heartofhorrors's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Death

hleary's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

2.5

Honestly had some potential, but just ended up being confusing and weird. Way too much sexual content that added to the strangeness of the novel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Racism

lbooch24's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Racism

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Blood and Vomit

Amanda is a racist

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Fatphobia, Terminal illness, War, Alcohol, Death of parent, Racism, Vomit, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

campirebat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Beautifully written exploration of what happens when humans can no longer logic their way to safety, and the parental anxiety one feels having kids in times like these. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Dysphoria, Vomit, and Child death

epeolatri's review

slow-paced

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

1.5

Okay, I can see what this book was trying to do. It’s rare to read books about the start of the end of the world, and for that it’s unique and interesting. The characters were terribly boring and so one-dimensional. I didn’t care even a bit about any of them. The use of the third person omniscient narrator had its purpose when it could give us small bits of information on what was happening in the world outside these two families, but other than that I feel like it did a disservice to the story. Had it been written in first person maybe the urgency of the situation and the terror the characters felt would’ve seemed more real to the reader. I was mostly annoyed at their choices and the way they only ever seemed to talk about what they should do but never actually did any of it. This book needed more action and less words. 
On that note, the author really really likes his metaphors and similes. Without them this book could’ve been about 100 pages shorter. An entire two or three pages were just a list of what a woman bought at the grocery store. The author also seemed weirdly obsessed with sex. At least three times I was made to read through a paragraph of a character masturbating, one of which was a minor. There was a description of a thirteen year old in a bathing suit that made me very uncomfortable. I’m not sure why the characters genitals were deemed so important to the plot. 
This book should have been a lot of things, but ended up just a weird, overly wordy mess that I barely managed to get through. Maybe the netflix movie will be better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Confinement, Addiction, Excrement, Classism, Vomit, Sexual content, and Racism

Minor: Violence, Suicide, War, Xenophobia, and Death