Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

6 reviews

bookishlucy's review against another edition

I don't understand why we're writing explicit sex scenes about a 16 year-old girl in a book written for adults. The main character is also very men-writing-women. I don't feel like the author understands what it's like to be a teen girl or a woman. The narration style I couldn't get into. The footnotes felt unnecessary most of the time and pulled me out of the story.
The prolouge got me really excited but immediately after I was already disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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: Child death, Cursing, Blood, Animal death, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, War, Sexual assault, Medical content, Sexism, Gore, Sexual harassment, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Classism, and Alcoholism

surelylune's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

an enjoyable book that was most certainly From A Male Author. the constant footnotes, while characterful and containing interesting worldbuilding, eventually became an utter chore to deal with. additionally, the sex scenes in this book were gratuitous and uninteresting, outside of the opening. my friends made fun of me for enjoying it, but i think the pairing of mias first sexual encounter and her first kill is interesting and sets up a potentially interesting "coming of age" plot for a young woman with a very fucked up moral compass. the prose was fun as well, the lingo used by the characters has a fun and unique style, and the action and violence is descriptive in a way that feels visceral but not bogged down in its own gore. there are reminders every now and then of the brutal bloody details that keep the image kristoff wants in your mind firmly there but not in a way that draws your attention away from the actual actions taking place.
additionally, some details concerning how the church the protagonist trains for operates is interesting, but - and i have no qualms about spoiling this - giving the main character a boob job and making her prettier is just kinda. gratuitous and annoying in a way that enhances nothing and by making it so any character can look almost any way they want, it detracts from a potentially more interesting system where assassins have very specific specialisations. im having trouble articulating the specific issue i have with this but the best way to summarise it is by restating: Male Fantasy Author.

additionally, the betrayal in the last 50 or so pages was very obvious to see coming. not so much that it was obvious ash and osrik were going to betray the church, but more that it was obvious that a betrayal of some kind was going to take place - the narrative up to that point made the ending feel predictable, if still well executed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual violence

sleepytessa's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Minor: Cursing and Vomit

vespertine_moth's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.25

I enjoyed this very much! I would compare it to Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, but by the end of the first novel you can tell they won't be taking the same path past the first novels in the series. The characters were very well developed with their own personalities, but sometimes they play one-note, however this is only book 1/3! The plot was somewhat predictable but takes some interesting turns you wouldn't otherwise expect! This book opens

with a sex scene, so if that's not for you take it into consideration! I was able to run past it very quickly but I would say that it was somewhat important. Other sex scenes in the novel I wouldn't deem necessary to read in full so they can easily be skipped

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Vomit, Torture, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

One of the races of people in this series has some cultural appropriation of natives, specifically with body/war tattoos. Not specifically mentioned to be modelled after any specific people but it is implied to be referencing darker skinned natives when the author is not himself.

oliverreeds's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

i didn't like the sexualization of the teenagers in this book. the writing is good; the narration is incredibly unique in a good way so the book only lost points in my book for underage kids being wayyyyy too sexualized. the book (in my opinion i haven't read the others yet) would be ultimately unchanged if the author had aged up the kids 4-7 years (or if they just didn't write an explicit sex scenes between minors)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Trafficking, and Vomit

don't read this book if you aren't cool with blood, gore, murder and death! they introduction is not joking!