Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

98 reviews

kirareads02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This was such a tense listen. You never knew what was going to happen or what secrets would be told. I really enjoyed how we found everything out slowly, and the narrator told us her story as though we lived in that world, like we knew what her school was. 

Really lovely, romantic and hopeful book. At the start I was hooked but couldn't understand reviews as to why it was classed as a dystopian novel so that was interesting for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Medical content, Infertility, and Sexual content

Minor: War, Classism, Cursing, Cancer, and Confinement

j_hanchey's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Medical content

resolving2read's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content

rensreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

that hurted

i’m honestly not sure at all what i should say. i hated the narration style with a passion but the story really had me. i almost cried at the end. it’s the worst to be the last one in the end and i hate feeling lonely more than anything so that almost got me.

still, i’m glad kath and tommy got a chance, no matter how small it was.

i hate ruth though. she’s awful. tommy may have been in love with someone else the entire time he was with ruth but he never cheated — unlike her. ugh, that made me officially hate her. she was awful before but that was downright disgusting of her.

i also think kath is an unreliable narrator to be honest. im not sure but the way she kept explaining her memories made me think she was misremembering them for some reason. she was a little likable but i didn’t really like any of the characters if im going to be honest.

despite all of that, i’d rate this 3.75 stars (:

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Toxic friendship, Infertility, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Child abuse

be wary of ruth and kath’s telling of her memories

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Infertility, Bullying, and Sexual content

ryster's review against another edition

emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

I liked this book. It's very bittersweet, tender and nostalgic, in a way that you wouldn't expect from a sci-fi book. There were some things about the narrative voice that sort of irked me, but nothing major, and nothing that majorly detracted from the experience. The book in itself is lovely, especially the first and last part I really enjoyed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

eliel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? No

2.5

A partly interesting story written in an extremely slow way. The characters didn't captivate my attention. The ending disappointed me.

+ beautiful writing
+ nice world-building
+ interesting story (in theory)

- slow
- boring character plots

I just prefer Klara ans the Sun over this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content, Infertility, and Death

bootsmom3'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Sexual content

elefantino's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Toxic friendship, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Vomit

itsheyfay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Toxic friendship, and Confinement

Moderate: Death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Sexual content