Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Ensaio sobre a cegueira by José Saramago

118 reviews

thesara99's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Sexual violence

lucimolri's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-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? No

3.5

Me ha gustado bastante! Mi mayor problema ha sido lo de que no estén marcados los diálogos y que se nota bastante que está escrito por un hombre, if you know what I mean…
Ha sido durillo y tenso, no es para todo el mundo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

christinahill's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, and Murder

anne_go's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Sexual violence

laurapaige's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

hoey_girlboss_queen's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.75

Este libro te captura en su mundo hasta el punto en que piensas que estas dentro de él y te sorprendes cuando te das cuenta de que la gente en la vida real no está ciega. 
Lo único malo es que en algunas partes se puede sentir muy sermoneador, pero vale la pena leerlo completo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

mariahribeiro's review

i literally cannot phisically finish this book because i despise it and it makes me fee terrible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

catarina_fernandes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

mariasilva's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Grief, and Murder

xihe's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I listened to the audiobook!
- Honestly? It is a fairly, maybe even inherently, ableist novel (a complicated discussion far beyond the scope of a bulleted review).
- It's pretty underwhelming as science fiction.
- The issues, plots, and sometimes the prose, felt far more simplistic than what I think (???) it was trying to convey.
- For me, it was somewhat more effective as entertainment than whatever it was attempting to masquerade as.
- I honesty don't see what about it hasn't already been done to death before it already, in a more compelling manner. 
- Except perhaps the frank depiction of rape and sexual violence in a pandemic of this nature, though I felt this element deserved more weight and focus in the narrative given the extremely graphic depictions of gang rape we are subjected to. It's also bogged down by some sexism that shows up in the book (both objectification & slut-shaming, for instance).
- We now know it's probably not a realistic depiction of what would happen in a pandemic. I'm not convinced that was the main intention, but I think it probably was one of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit