Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins

33 reviews

ronniegayreads's review against another edition

dark sad 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

0.25

Worst book of the year, do not read!!! It started off being just boring. The first 50% is just

them losf in a forest.

Then the plot starts, and there is such fucked up shit that happens for no reason.

one of them falls into a hole and breaks her foot, the other one goes to get help, and a man fucking masturbates watching the girl in the hole🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

literally whag the fuck was the point of that???? So fuckin weird. And disgusting. Fucking ew. I'm disgusted by the author. This should not be a YA book. 


Boring, stupid, weird, creepy and disgusting plot. 

So far, the worst book I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

reedandright's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Stalking, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Excrement, Racism, Gaslighting, Torture, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Car accident, Cursing, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Infertility

jessie_roz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Vomit, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

rorunyon96's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Stalking, Blood, Death, Violence, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Rape, and Abandonment

seasidefaye13's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

clarethajoanne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Violence, and Stalking

Minor: Murder, Death, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, Car accident, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

amberv92's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.25

Book was horribly written the start of the book is just whiny teenagers going on a hike before college. The author took forever to even get to what the story is about. Basically you might as well just watch the hills have eyes because that’s 10x better then this book. The author completely tried to go for the Hills have Eyes plot and failed miserably.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Body horror, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Violence, Gore, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Stalking

emmahartikainen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual violence

outsmartyourshelf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Friends Neena & Josie decide to go on a 3 day hiking & camping trip before Neena moves to California for university. Borrowing their gear from Josie's older brother & his girlfriend, the two girls head out for the Blue Ridge mountains, but shortly after starting their trip, they realise that they are out of their depth. There's no phone coverage & there are few cars in the car park meaning hardly any other fellow hikers. They also realise that their friendship is on the point of disintegration as they snap & snipe their way over the first day. On finally reaching the campground for their first night, the girls notice that only one other tent is there, but it is strangely quiet.

The girls make their evening meal & get ready to sleep, but during the night, Neena is sure she hears someone creeping about the site. The two girls end up falling out with each other completely, but the next day, both are too stubborn to turn back so they decide to follow a different route back. This turns out to be the worst decision they could have made as partway through the new route, the markers suddenly disappear & then Josie falls into a concealed sinkhole. She is badly injured & Neena decides to return to the car & drive far enough to get a signal & call for help. Whilst separated, the girls are about to face their worst nightmares.

The first part of the book seems a young YA roadtrip book - there's a lot of 'fish out of water' moments, but also a lot of falling out & fighting & you wonder why these girls are friends. The second part suddenly becomes almost a different book - it's brutal & rather gory in places with sudden violence & menace. It does show very neatly though, how girls can be socialised into ignoring their intuition that someone is not what they seem, because they don't want to appear rude or unkind & how predators take advantage of that. Overall, it turned out to be a grittier book that I expected, but I don't really get why the author stopped the story where they did - what the heck was that ending?! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

jessicasophie's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, Gun violence, Stalking, Medical trauma, Gore, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol and Addiction