Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Jaws by Peter Benchley

19 reviews

royalwaves's review against another edition

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

2.0

I’m so glad that I never bought a copy of this book and just borrowed it from the library. I would never recommend this. If you love the Jaws movies like I do save yourself the time. 

The only good parts were the few scenes with the shark. I was expecting this to be a lot like the movie but this was like 90% about infidelity. The only reason I’m not rating this lower is that I don’t hate this book, I’m just
extremely disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Racism, and Animal death

Minor: Vomit, Rape, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

thebearnest's review against another edition

mysterious 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

draven_deathcrush's review against another edition

I got hit with infidelity again and I'm so mad!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Death

Moderate: Racism and Misogyny

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Alcohol, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Rape, and Animal death

trippyotter's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

Next month, February, celebrates the 50th ANNIVERSARY of the book release! *mind blowing* 

I'd been wanting to read the book for some time, and I was trying to hold out until the anniversary month, but I had just finished a book and... Let's just say, OMG! It's soooo much better than the movie! And I'm soooo disappointed by what was not incorporated into the movie, too! 

But if they ever remake JAWS, which they should never, never, never do... They seriously need to include some of the left-out plot details! 

I will say, that I read White Shark last year and thought, "ok, this is good, but it's not amazing..." and was questioning if I should read JAWS. Well, if you've read any of Benchley's other books and you're not sure about JAWS, you should definitely read it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, and Gore

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The book is weirder about women then It is about sharks which is saying something. It is weird about race but not in a way that’s coherent on way or the other that I could really go into it but if you have sensitivity to slurs there’s slurs about Japanese people and lesbians in the latter chapters. 

The book tries to have some conversation about toxic masculinity and the performance of it that the book is too sexist to have a coherent message about. For a book that comes across as respecting the main protagonist for being a cop it does have conservations about corruption and classism in tourist small towns including in politics, media and police. 

It’s an interesting experience because a book you go in assuming is man vs nature type of book it is more man vs man. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Misogyny, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape

rockyc5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Vomit, Cursing, and Racism

cabbagecakes's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia and Gore

Minor: Rape, Misogyny, and Racism

bearystarry's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

0.25

I literally only finished this book so I could rate it because I hated it so much. The only interesting/good parts were the parts about the shark, everything else was a nightmarish mixture of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and weird rape fantasies. And also some copaganda and animal torture/cruelty for fun, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Body shaming, Infidelity, Misogyny, Alcohol, Animal death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Racism, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Antisemitism, and Fatphobia

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Rape