Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Tajemna historia by Donna Tartt

299 reviews

carodunn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.75

very nihilistic in a satisfying way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Murder, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Incest, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual violence and Suicidal thoughts

sugar_fox's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

This book, despite taking me a long time to finish reading is a must-read for anyone and everyone. Never in this book was there a moment where I thought it was dull. Even the everyday occurrences in this school was made intriguing beyond belief, hell, I’d go as to say I enjoyed every moment of this book. Never did I hate it, something rare for me. The only thing, if you hate being made to feel stupid, don’t read this book. The amount of literary references, and the many others I probably missed was crazy.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Murder, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Sexism, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Death, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Car accident, and Outing

raypaws's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Drug use, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Suicide, Murder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Animal death, Incest, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, and Sexism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Self harm, and Rape

avignaa's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense 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

3.0

The premises was great, the writing is beautiful. However, i find it lazy to take 8 years to write a book and relying on slurs to make a commentary on dark academia. Hearing the audiobook narrated by the author and saying these slurs with her whole chest was definitely something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Murder, Incest, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape

uss_mary_shelley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Addiction, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

lisa00's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Incest, Racism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug use

rebekkamafia's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, Classism, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Incest, Addiction, Blood, Homophobia, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Vomit, Murder, Suicide, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism, Antisemitism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Rape, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

nleclairdo's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Incest, Racial slurs, Violence, Antisemitism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Murder, and Suicide

channamason's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

oh boy this book was a TRIP! I really loved the first half of the book, but the pacing didn’t keep up with itself in the second half.

I wonder how the book would be different if you didn’t know they kill Bunny from the start. i was waiting for the pin to drop and the reasoning why they killed him and that was really impactful. however i felt like the book shied from the actual acts of things. i read online people say that is because richard is an unreliable narrator but i didn’t feel that in the moment. i wanted to see the scene unfold after they pushed bunny. the biggest mystery was that they kill the farmer and i still felt like there was pieces missing that i wished were discussed more. i did really like it, but i was waiting for something more towards the end- specially though julian and henry’s relationship would be discussed more. there was lots of moments of foreshadowing that kind of went nowhere- Richard will say something like it wasn’t until later i knew what that was about and those moments weren’t resolved. 

this book will be one that sticks with me for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicide, Murder, and Sexism

robin_c's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Incest, Gun violence, Racism, Xenophobia, Sexism, Violence, Suicide, and Self harm