Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

7 reviews

abvi's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Cancer

Moderate: Rape

jiscoo's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.75

finding it hard to breathe after finishing this book.
heartbreaking, original, intelligent, empathetic, and made to be read and reread compulsively.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual assault

edilund's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Dementia, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Car accident, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

hilaryreadsbooks's review

4.0

This is (to be blunt) first and foremost a book about death, about the anticipation of death. The daughter, a child watching her mother deteriorate, describes her jaundiced mother as yellow. The husband imagines waking up in bed without his wife. And the dying—Lia—sees her entire life mapped out to this point, narrated by the voice of disease, culminating in a heart wrenching ending where disease melds with woman, even as she says “body expansive. not mine.” 

As woman and disease consider her body’s history, Lia draws connections from point A to point B, wonders if the coming death is from having sinned. There is an underlying tenor of punishment: perhaps she is sick from what has been done to her body. perhaps violence can stay within, even after all these years later, and manifests as something physical, claw its way forward into the present. So, while this is a book about death, it is also a book about living. As in, how to live with the knowledge of how utterly fragile our lives are and what to do with that fragility. As in, how to recognize strength amongst our fragility. As in, how we continue. 

Pick up if you’re okay with feeling sad and progressively sadder and sadder, and if you like novel-in-verse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

afion's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Sexual violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Car accident and Bullying

Minor: Infidelity

madelonpaige's review

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Cancer, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

booksarebrainfood's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Body horror, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit