Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

5 reviews

sigreads_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide attempt, Death, Murder, Suicide, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Cancer, Stalking, Violence, and Sexual content

typedtruths's review against another edition

mysterious fast-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

1.25

1.25 ★

i'm offended on agatha christie's behalf

 ▷ Representation: Arthur (mc) is gay; Sam (mc) is Jamaican; Jessica (mc) is mixed race, Vietnamese & Black (adopted by a white family with limited knowledge of her heritage).

Blog • Trigger Warning Database • StoryGraph 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Misogyny, Stalking, Grief, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Car accident, Sexual assault, Racism, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

➸ Trigger warnings for misogyny, racism mentioned, ableism (r slur, on-page), sexual assault mentioned (groping), child abuse and neglect recounted including a mention of child sexual assault, spousal abandonment, abusive relationship (scs), cheating, sex work (on-page), familial estrangement mentioned, alcohol consumption (on-page), alcohol abuse (implied), recreational drug use (on-page), chronic leg injury, grief and loss depiction, death of a girlfriend from oxycontin overdose mentioned, death of a husband and a pet dog in a car accident recounted, death of a sister from drowning recounted, murder by drowning, murder by gun violence, murder by poisoning, stalking, and animal dead body mentioned (seagull).

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

The plot was interesting enough, but the ending was lackluster. The big reveal was a little nonsensical. The characters weren’t terribly compelling, and there were some really weird bits when it came to characters of color. For example, although it wasn’t relevant to the story or to establishing his character, there were multiple pages recounting how the only black character in the book had only experienced racism once after moving to Maine. It was just weird. The prose was mostly fine, but there were multiple chapters that felt like filler, as if the publisher said the word count wasn’t long enough and Swanson just needed to pad it out. I probably won’t pick up another book from him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Racism, Homophobia, and Sexual violence

jenn_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

It was fine. Just... fine.

I listened to it as an audiobook and it was a little more difficult to follow than I imagine it was in print? It kept re-reading the list of names and starting the chapter numbers over from one, it took me about two thirds of the book to realize it might have names struck through that the narrator wasn't identifying as such. It was also a little hard to keep track of the threads as an audiobook.

The Jay chapters in particular were really jarring to hear aloud like that. I was not prepared. 

I feel like I probably should have just reread And Then There Were None. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Gun violence, Child death, Murder, Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Drowning

readuntilthelastpage's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Stalking, Sexual assault, Murder, and Sexism