Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Circle by Dave Eggers

36 reviews

charlynlynlyn's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Stalking, and War

nstew16's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death

readingwithalex02's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

 Things I liked:

1. I was positively terrified. It really seemed like all that happened in the book could really happen irl. 
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   I expected a somewhat happy ending and it was actually quite refreshing to not get one
   
   
   

Things I didn’t like:

1. Frankly, Mae was quite an irritating main character. I had some hope because of all her little rebellions but ultimately she became so incredibly annoying and her pov by the end was just infuriating 
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   The ‘plot twist’ about Kalden didn’t really make sense to me. There didn’t seem to be that much build up to it and I’m not sure if a reader could actually have guessed it? (which in my opinion makes it a bad twist) 
    
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   There were a lot of heavy topics which were dealt with too lightly (racism, non consensual porn videos and suicide, to mention only a few) and which were frankly quite awful experiences to read about

Overall I enjoyed the book …kind of. I certainly didn’t want to put it down, especially by the end. But also I found myself getting quite anxious at certain parts and having to put it down. Would recommend checking content warnings before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, and Gaslighting

morganperks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Medical content

Minor: Child death and Kidnapping

beefromanoff's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide

librarikay's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

**pardon my french but, this is all so fucked up**

this rating is in part as a result from my discussions in the class where i was assigned to read this book, and then partly just from my pure enjoyment and actual fear reading and note-taking by myself. 

so! there’s that

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual content and Kidnapping