Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

7 reviews

lovetlr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

2.5

The very perky narrator was quite distracting especially given the dark subject matter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Trafficking

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? No

I loved the descriptive writing style, and I loved Poornima and Savitha as characters.  It's hard for me to rate this because it's almost unrelentingly sad. The main characters were so resilient, but I'm so sad that they had to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Infertility, and Self harm

Minor: Child death and Racism

Colorism

internationalreads's review

challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

gabrielab's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Cancer

lilymouse's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

This was absolutely breathtaking. You can feel every emotion that these girls feel, and the twists, turns, and journeys these girls go on take you in such a bittersweet ride. Also,

THAT ENDING OH MY GOD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Abortion, Ableism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

emilyhays's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• 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

This book is so horrible in its content in every way. But the way it's done is so fantastic. The writing injects hope into the narrative in a way that makes you not want to get your hopes up, because everytime it feels like something is going to be okay, it's not. This is about to girls in a small village in India and the way they are treated there, and even when apart, the hope they find in their relationship to keep stoking the fire within them to keep going, to find a way out. It is wonderful and yet so awful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, and Cancer

literally all the fucking triggers, seriously.

biblioleah's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

this was so much more graphic and traumatic a story than i was expecting, and although it was so hard to read, i admire what the book brought to light and the writing was truly lovely, the characters more than admirable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Racism