Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

A Guerra dos Tronos by George R.R. Martin

121 reviews

beagrim's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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At times an engaging read with some interesting content, but it gets totally bogged down in violence and redundant, predictable character actions. By about halfway through the book, I loathed over half the characters. By the end I was only interested in three of the character story lines(out of, say, 12 or more?). The audio book is enjoyable(up to a point) because of the excellent narration. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

abbyjme's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual harassment

essorens's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book pissed me off more than the last 500+ page book I read about a bunch of men. This book took rape way too casually for how often the author was obsessed with talking about it. Basically any sex/sexual descriptions with women involved was low key weird and gross. Also I’ll never forgive Tywin for murdering that Inn Keeper. The fact that death mattered more to me than most of the others shows how annoying I found almost every character. I want to know what happens with Jon Snow/zombies/winter etc and kind of want to know what happens after Daenerys breast feeds dragons. Other than that I think Arya is the only likeable character…I guess Tyrion is enjoyable as well…and I could do without 50% of the plot. Damn. Didn’t think I’d hate this book and yet here we are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sebeth76's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

padawansmith's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A good start to the series. My brother finally convinced me to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War

micahsch17's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

nikitarule's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual violence

katherine_a's review against another edition

slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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There is so much rape and pedophelia in this book. I am disgusted and will look at fans of this book differently after having read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Classism

Don’t read this series

mangopassion555's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury

paulabalben's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Una de las mejores lecturas de este año sin duda. Increíble el desarrollo y la fuerza de los personajes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury