Reviews tagging 'Torture'

La Parabole du semeur by Octavia E. Butler

143 reviews

inirac's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Death, Trafficking, Slavery, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

lilaceous's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

characters - ⭐️

plot - .5⭐️

engaging to read - .5⭐️

would recommend - ⭐️

would read again - ⭐️

filled me with dread :) very unsettling.

a bit slow at times, and the earthseed religion lost me a bit, but overall really well done and worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Torture, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Rape

corriejn's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Drug abuse, Animal death, Torture, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Slavery, Sexual violence, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

Minor: Religious bigotry

maameadwubi's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? No

3.0

This book is incredibly bleak; Octavia Butler was incredibly prescient and the parallels between this book and our potential reality made it even more horrifying/scary to read. I wasn’t aware of what I was getting into when I started reading it and had to put it down halfway through to spark not a the rest. 
Will be dealing with nightmares for the near future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Body horror, Death, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cannibalism, Slavery, Child abuse, Drug use, Incest, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Vomit, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Racism, and Suicide

finn_1312's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Racism, Trafficking, Torture, Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Blood, Animal death, Police brutality, Addiction, Death, and Drug abuse

dizzy_mittz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Gore, Murder, Rape, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Blood, Death of parent, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Death, Cannibalism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Child death, and Abandonment

If you can handle the content, it’s a very sobering read - you may even find some hope in it. I highly recommend this book. I will, however, not be diving directly into the rest of the series. Breaks will be necessary if you are emotionally swayed by your reading - I should have taken more while reading.

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.75

Plot: 4.5★
Prose: 4.5★
Pace: 4★
Concept/Execution: 4★/5★
Characters: 4.75★
Worldbuilding: 4.75★
Ending: 4.75★

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal death, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Slavery, Torture, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Cursing, Pregnancy, Trafficking, Gore, Infertility, Pedophilia, Suicide, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Excrement

joharrismay's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense slow-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

5.0

One of my all time favs. I haven’t read it in a while just it’s so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, War, Gaslighting, Medical content, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Grief, Gore, Misogyny, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

zsuzsireads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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? No

4.5

Climate disaster, dystopia, bad ass female main characters. This book will stay with me for a long time. I loved the exploration of hyperempathy (tho I wish it was explored in greater depth) and seeing the main character make sense of her crumbling world through the language of her own religion. I was hoping we'd find out a little more about the state of the world and how it came to be such a horrible place - I guess I was expecting it to be more focused on the climate crisis, tho that was mostly my own preconception of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Rape, Death, Child death, and Torture

sunschoenmai's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Drug use, Rape, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Torture, Classism, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Cursing, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, and Death of parent