Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Keizerin by Selma Soester, Karen Miller

2 reviews

venti's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-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

5.0

i wrote this before i read the last 200 or so pages:

hot take: i liked hekat. scandalously, i would even go so far as to say i liked her. i know. all the other reviews here are astonished.

tbh i don’t think it was easy to like her, and that is what makes her an entirely interesting character. you witness the horrors she endures — particularly within her tenure as a slave — and you begin to understand why she quickly becomes unlikable. she is a product of mijak and its society.

my opinions of hekat after the last 200 pages:

oh my god what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, War, Xenophobia, and Miscarriage

waterlylly's review against another edition

I guess it's possible that it gets better after the beginning? But I just. Don't. Care. In 50 pages, this book has done nothing to make me interested. I already know that I want nothing to do with the world the thing is set in. No stars. Bailing out. Not going to do it. I have NO IDEA why Storygraph consistently put this at the top of my recommendations, but this time it's just dead wrong. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault