Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

5 reviews

maecave15's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Murder, and Grief

tonyay's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual content and Genocide

Minor: War and Violence

pixa's review

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

This book has magic. I have aphantasia, and it’s not as complete since ketamine therapy, but it’s still like a 4 (if zero is darkness and ten is photographic). But every time I picked this one up I was transported. I could feel the ice, and I could see the fur. 

My feelings about the story itself are… complicated. I have a feeling I’ll be thinking of it for a while before I sort out what I really feel about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, War, Death, Sexual assault, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Sexual content

CW: animal death note regarding the pack:

The 4 primary character animals (dogs/wolf-dogs) all die, but with kindness &/or dignity.

CW: sexual assault note:

In addition to various descriptions of SA including real time assault of the MC, there is discussion of SA from a remorseful rapist’s perspective. There is also an averted father/daughter SA early on.

kabookworm's review

I really liked the beginning, like really liked the beginning, but a quarter of the way through it just became a bummer. I kept going bc things will get better, right? The foreshadowing was enticing, so I figured it’d be worth it in the end. 

Then new characters are introduced, and with them came transphobia, truly awful SA (not that there’s any other kind), and explicit sexual scenes that frankly I didn’t want to read or need to read. No amount of foreshadowing could convince me to continue. 
 
I had heard really good things about this book, and I want to support stories with diverse casts, but I simply felt like garbage reading it. It’s a no from me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Outing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

buonsai's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

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