Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace

28 reviews

kdreidsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

If I didn't highlight at least 50% of this book I'll eat my goddamn hat. I want the entire manuscript tattooed on my body in scrawling prose so I can stay infused with this magic everyday. (I might settle for buying a copy to annotate, gifting this to every woman I meet, and tattooing the coven rules on my body instead.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexism, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Abortion

kj468's review against another edition

I borrowed this from the library because I follow the author on Instagram and quite like a lot of the poems she posts there (in 2022). However, the themes in this book were very different, ones I don’t relate to, and the overall message of the book seems to be “men bad, women victims”. While I’m a strong feminist and firmly believe that there are deeply rooted societal problems regarding the mentality that men at large are taught regarding women at large, this book was incredibly reductive and took the “all men” narrative too far. I wanted to finish this book but honestly it was too depressing and infuriating, and I just fundamentally didn’t agree with the viewpoint the book was taking, so reading the second half didn’t seem like a good use of my time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Rape, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexism

megs_9678's review against another edition

emotional relaxing tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

kitten's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Eating disorder, and Domestic abuse

daphne_430's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexism

the author included a page with the trigger warnings at the beginning of the book

hpterka's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

seequinn's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Rape

neni's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

1.5

I don't get why this type of format is so popular. Full respect for the author, she has as much right to publish her work as anyone else, but I genuinely thought this was weak af. 
There was no real structure to the "poems", no particular beauty in the phrasing, and I honestly struggle to even call it poetry, when all it felt like was a continuous stream of consciousness speech about (albeit important, necessary) topics that are so overdone in the public discourse because they get "clicks" , they begin to lose all meaning. I don't think these types of works especially do these topics and these struggles any justice because there weren't any actual insights or substance to the poems , it's almost like they were just there for the angsty/emo aesthethic and not much else.
There has to be a way to approach these themes in a more engaging thoughtful way and this book just wasn't it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, and Racism

marthabethanreads's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Misogyny, Sexism, Transphobia, and Eating disorder

macysmith's review against another edition

inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Sexism