Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay

8 reviews

tavetzuigel's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

rchailles's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

amych's review against another edition

2.5

The novel had a good idea but it was poorly executed. The characters of the five were quite flat and lacked meaningful depth. In particular,

Jen was a completely 2d character who only existed to be raped and violently tortured at the end. Horrific and graphic as it was, because she had no personality I found myself not caring much. And why did the five not seem surprised about being whisked to another world, but just accepted the new status quo with almost no questions?

 
If this book had had less violence against women, which seemed to serve no purpose to the plot other than being torture porn, I would have rated it higher. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Sexism, and Torture

lleullawgyffes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

bonnie's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

Moderate: Murder and Rape

sgates's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

mformato's review

adventurous challenging slow-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

2.0

This book felt like a cheap knockoff of Tolkien and I wasn't surprised to find out that the author helped with The Silmarillion to some extent. The world in this book did come across as if the author knew more of the backstory that there was to everything, but except in his lengthy exposition dumps I didn't feel like we truly got to experience the beauty it held. I also didn't like how unrealistic it was that the Five just outright accepted everything going on with basically no skepticism to them. The book was a struggle to get through personally and I won't be interested in picking up the other two, especially not after skimming their summaries on Wikipedia and being even more confused.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

racheliswriting's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape and Violence