Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

141 reviews

has3000's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Well, that was the fastest I’ve finished a book in a long time. In many ways, this has a lot of similarities to the Hunger Games. Dystopian future where young adults fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the rich, as the main character works to undermine the whole society. But in many ways this stands clearly as its own story.

It’s much more of an adult book. Not explicit, but it contains rape, murder, and mutilation. The character interactions and politics are complicated and ever-changing.

One huge point in favor of this book is that it’s across space. The story takes place centuries in the future, after mankind has colonized not just Luna and Mars, but most of the moons in the solar system.

The main character has plenty of flaws, and fights within himself to control his instincts for the sake of the better, harder path. He also grows as a person and his view of others changes from very black and white into more complex hues (if you’ll pardon the pun).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Rape

Space, rebellion, mars,

lillygm's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

defymavity's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This is an intense book, unlike most other books I've read. I was not expecting anything in this book. I tried to make predictions but my predictions didn't matter in the end.
Definitely recommend, but it is not for everyone. Not a full 5 stars only because the characters were all very similar-ish. But not in a bad way, i just like a little more development I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Animal death and Slavery

Minor: Rape, Cannibalism, Colonisation, and Sexual violence

If you like your dystopian novels dark and intriguing. This is for you.

miss_fish's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Slavery, Classism, Death, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Violence, Murder, and Rape

cats_n_plants_n_cats_n_plants's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Violence, Sexual violence, War, Misogyny, Animal death, and Death

minimoose0's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Torture, Murder, Trafficking, Racism, Rape, Violence, and Sexual violence

mirandyli's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is Brave New World meets Hunger Games, with way more oppression. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Grief, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and War

baileyisbookish's review against another edition

I really wanted to like this because I thought the premise was interesting. I did enjoy it up to a point. But the main character became so uninteresting and hard to be in the thoughts of that I found myself dragging near the end. I had four chapters left before I DNF’d. 

I was also disturbed by the author’s use of SA and misogyny as plot points. It is one thing to include these serious, traumatic and triggering topics as a way to explore their impact upon individuals and societies and have readers empathize with what this experience does to you. It is quite another to include this topic solely for world building or moving a plot along (violence against female characters in order to benefit the male characters? really?). That is a practice in writing that needs to be left behind. 

This had a lot of potential for me to enjoy, and I just didn’t. I was disappointed. I hope the author can learn from the feedback he is receiving from the millions of women who love to read sci fi and fantasy stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Body horror

qveenmab's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

goodman is basically a slur at this point

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, War, Death, Classism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Murder, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cannibalism

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Classism, Death, Grief, Physical abuse, Torture, Animal death, Violence, Murder, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and War

Minor: Colonisation