Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Nona Casa by Leigh Bardugo

1570 reviews

abee_3_c's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

• Ms Bardugo's fantastic world building!
• Intricate plot and twists!!
• Many many layers of "whodunit" and "what's going on"!!!
• Loveable characters that I would spend an eternity reading about!!!!
• Leigh took me to hell with this book and I enjoyed it!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Vomit, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

gremlin_98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Galaxy ‘Alex’ Stern is a woman cloaked in darkness and tragedy. 
It would seem almost as if her life was doomed to end in heartbreak & lonely. 

Learning about the Houses, the magic and Alex made this a fascinating tell. I will not lie though. I do suggest looking up trigger warnings because if you're not in the right headspace I can imagine that some of the topics discussed and scenes that play out could really mess with someone. 
I’ll also point out that the timeline in how the story played out could be confusing, but I was able to just go with it and I didn’t feel too lost as it all came to a close. 

Thank you past me for picking up Hell Bent the same day so I am able to live in this world a little longer. I just hope the story continues in the way I’m hoping & it doesn’t focus on things I rather skip

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Body horror, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse

isabelboswinkel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Violence, Sexual assault, Medical content, Murder, Drug use, and Physical abuse

_laurenslittlelibrary_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Excrement, Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Medical content

tony_hart's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence, Drug abuse, Death, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood

arykalden's review against another edition

3.75

I almost put this book down, but I’m glad that I didn’t. There are certain moments that are so dark maybe unnecessarily so. It’s hard to reconcile the past of this character with their present. That I’ll being sad I think the world is quite interesting, the characters have depth, and it’s definitely worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

shawnaontheshelf's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

lizzie24601's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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

2.5

Leigh Bardugo's writing chops are as strong as ever - strong enough to keep me going even amid unbuilt characters and a few too many sexual assault cases that were never remarked upon again afterward. The intended audience might just be Yale alums like Bardugo herself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Addiction, Blood, Grief, and Child abuse

Minor: Cancer

belletex's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Stressful but in a determined to kick ass feminist murder fantasy kinda way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Grief, and Domestic abuse

katdirks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-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

4.25

It was a cool mystery with magic and I loved the characters and I'm happy to see it is a series with one sequel! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Sexual assault