Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

148 reviews

mandriol's review

I hated this book. The characters were annoying and disgusting. The book had themes that I hated and it didn’t even address them well. It made my skin crawl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

elliewellie33's review

emotional funny hopeful relaxing sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Racism and Sexual harassment

zojmsm's review

hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment

fantabulousjess's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective relaxing 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Death, and Abortion

Minor: Infidelity and Sexual harassment

blairsatellite's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abortion, Medical trauma, Vomit, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Cursing, Ableism, Mass/school shootings, Cancer, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Hate crime, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Car accident, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Classism, and Terminal illness

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective relaxing 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? Yes

5.0

i am kind of speechless
sam and sadie are basically the dream team, and marx is such a good facilitator. the author's choice of time era was perfect, and she obviously wrote from somewhat of a personal experience

p11:

And yet, he knew himself and he knew he was the type of person that never called anyone, unless he was absolutely certain the advance would be welcomed. 

ha! me

p39: i bet

dov is her bf

p40: WHAT
p41: ha, she's right, she totally is like the solution player
p43: girlie this doesn't seem healthy, go get real friends
p66: huh? the MCs are born in '74? they're old
p82: they're not speaking again? seriously
p209: that is a twist! to be fair if this is the reason they stop speaking I can understand that
p265: purely based on the fact that one of the sections is called marriages,

i predict that marx and zoe will be one of them

p267: you what
p283: don't tell me

marx and sadie are the ones that get married

p331:

bet she's pregnant

p335:

are we sure marx is ok? like ARE WE DAMN SURE

p338: before I read any further let's have another prediction based this section title...if it's called the npc because

MARX DIES OR SMTH AND SADIE SPENDS HER WHOLE LIFE ON MAPLEWORLD INTERACTING WITH AN NPC THEY BASE ON MARX

I AM GOING TO SOB HYSTERICALLY
p340: I'M SCARED
p344: no! i'm gonna cry for poor charlotte and adam cause i bet they won't get to make their game now and they really needed this ☹️
p351: sam! that is an unnecessary insult bro
p356: NOT ANT
P360: OH THANK THE LORD
p361: OH HE FREAKING BETTER NOT!!

DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE THAT CHILD WITHOUT A FATHER!!

p363:

JUST HOLD ON MARX, COME ON!!!

p365: AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭
@esthersanderson! GIRL! DID YOU BUY ME THIS BOOK JUST TO PUT ME THROUGH ALL THIS EMOTIONAL TRAUMA???
p368: how am i supposed to move on in this book knowing that

marx is dead??

p404: oh my goshhhh, it's the "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech
p446: ok this a slightly immature reason not to speak, but she's grieving so we'll forgive her

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Cancer

Minor: Abandonment, Cultural appropriation, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Vomit, Abortion, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

curlykristenk's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book made me feel SO MANY FEELINGS. Some happy, some sad, some furious, some distraught. But that’s what makes a good book. The writing was incredible, thoughtful and thought provoking. Just amazingly creative and clever. 
Yes there were plenty of toxic elements to the many relationships in this but navigating those is also a part of life. They were authentically human and both Sam and Sadie made mistakes. I don’t like that she still meets up with dov in the end but just goes to show the long lasting effects that (TW) grooming and manipulation can have on a person. This overall was a realistic, messy, heart wrenching, heart warming story about human connection and love. What else is there? 
The NPC has my heart. 

This review was written and book was read prior to learning about xenophobic author.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Violence, Abortion, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

Minor: Blood, Body horror, and Cancer

ashtheaudiomancer's review

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

2.25

Throughout my reading of this book, I keep yelling out things like, "What??" "WHY!?" "Not in 1996, you can't," "That is not what 'heterochromia' means," and mostly "GOD these PEOPLE!"

I hated this. It was entertaining to some degree, but I have no patience left in me for these kinds of characters. We have 1) a self-pitying manipulative jerk who is supposed to be brilliant and very precise with language, but doesn't know what 'heterochromia' means, 2) a self-pitying manipulative jerk who keeps crawling back to her abuser over and over, 3) said abuser, who takes advantage of his students, and does not at any point either atone for his actions or get a bus dropped on him by the narrative, and 4) the only actual good character who DOES get a bus dropped on him by the narrative. This is one of those "If any of you actually, like TALKED to each other, this conflict would totally evaporate" types of stories that I can't stand. (And I'm pretty sure taking credit for introducing the first same-sex marriage in a videogame would really piss off whatever developer *actually* did that.)

"Then why did you finish it?"

Someone else chose this book for my library book club, and from what I gather I was not the only one who had this reaction to it, so at least it'll be an interesting discussion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Medical trauma

rockinradio14's review

emotional slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Medical trauma

lightthebeam's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

This book is divided into parts, and if you think of it as the sum of those into a whole - I think readers will enjoy it more. The book doesn’t pick one time to stay in throughout, there are jumps foreword and back and the beginning features heavy foreshadowing (honestly it kinda just states the what’s to come in some parts) and doesn’t make the reader work hard in guessing how things may develop. There is a slight identity crisis in writing style and what the book is accomplishing but again if you think of it in parts, it makes more sense and is less confusing. 
I did not like the sudden narrator switch, it’s something I tend to not like at all in books but I do think it worked to further the story and of course it provided a unique perspective but I found it jarring and awkward. 
The characters in this book will piss you off, and while parts of it are so beautiful overall it does leave you feeling sad. Maybe that’s just me. It’s meant to leave off hopeful but it feels sorrowful instead. 
I thought the middle of this book was the most beautiful - everything before the pioneer game chapters. I devoured the beginning of this book, but at the end it wasn’t as captivating and I felt like I was reading in circles, the character progression had stagnated but honestly they were just in a stagnant place which I understand. Overall I did really enjoy this book, there were just parts of the writing style I found to be a hinderance to the actual story, it felt like there was a slight identity crisis but it did make for a unique and thought provoking read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Antisemitism, Death, Mass/school shootings, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, Cancer, Car accident, Hate crime, Chronic illness, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Violence, Xenophobia, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic relationship