Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

63 reviews

lolajh's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.0

I’m so confused on who the target audience is for this???? There’s scenes like

Warner making Juliette torture that baby

but then it’s written so much like a child 😭😭 The writing is seriously so underdeveloped and irritating, like with the weird repetition of words with no commas like “I want to be angry angry angry” or similes and metaphors that make no sense (not to mention the sheer amount of times the word shatter was mentioned dude) and it all took away from an admittedly promising premise of a story but just with poor execution. Like the concept of this 1984-esque dystopian world and Juliette

among many others

having this dangerous condition and a traumatic upbringing and her whole experience in the asylum was all very promising, like I loved the beginning of this book. I really just think the romance ruined it a bit. I feel like the book would have really benefited from the delving into and working on of Juliette’s trauma and that she recovered her sense of self independently from others before diving into romance. It was just very strange to me to have these raw and emotional scenes with Juliette and Adam and then

having near-sex scenes in a fucking tank or in the very next room to Adam’s ten year old brother???? I especially found that shower scene so incredibly strange because of how quick it escalated from Juliette baring so much emotion and trauma to then Adam picking her up and putting her in the shower and then kissing her?? Like I do think Adam all in all is an ‘okay’ guy, apart from him ignoring Juliette’s consent to not touch her several times but most of their romance scenes were just so off putting in context.

And let’s talk about fucking Warner. I’ve read the descriptions of later books in the series and have seen him alllllll over tiktok so I know how things with him end up going, but right now he is anything but redeemable in my eyes. He’s psychotic and creepy, and his advances towards Juliette are nothing but rape-y.

Juliette accepting his advances before shooting him was assault. She didn’t have any choice at all; it was either let Warner…do that, or she would die. And I fucking hate that in that scene, Juliette starts to enjoy it, that she hadn’t, what, realised that she wanted it? That’s a dangerous thing to portray for sure, because that’s how rapists think! In my eyes, there is so way in hell their relationship can develop to be something where they can end up together in a healthy manner. I don’t care if he’s traumatised or has the ability to “change”, there is no coming back from that. He’s scary and I probably will be dropping this series because I cannot even handle that happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Stalking, Violence, Confinement, Torture, Sexual harassment, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

xtamsinc's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment

otterspond's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

tw// very brief mention of rape (only in the section with spoilers)
I went into this expecting a truly, beautifully trashy experience. I was in a reading slump and needed something to pick me back up. now, was it essentially just a rehashing of dystopia tropes from the 2010s? Absolutely. did that negatively impact my experience of the book at all? No. Its well written, some truly gorgeous use of language, fast paced plot and interesting characters.

admittedly i truly believed from how quick and seeminly one dimensional the central relationship was that Adam was gonna turn out to be evil but maybe thats just my inherent distrust of men.

on that subject - the creepy, rapey way that warner acts truly made my skin crawl. a truly exellent villain.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

neliadiedenise's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Abandonment, Confinement, Gaslighting, Sexism, War, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Addiction, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Blood, and Bullying

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual harassment, Violence, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, Death, Child abuse, Confinement, and Grief

samcsmith's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Body horror, Medical content, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, and Trafficking

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Stalking, Grief, Vomit, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

konnerreads's review against another edition

Aaron literally

sexually assaulted Juliette.

I don't care if he had a special reason which is reveled later on. It's still just as bad and he should've listened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

sloth_readz's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

A dark dystopian story based on a girl with a gift. Has a lot of romance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gun violence

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

snailbuds's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

Read at 16, rated 5 stars, re-read at 18, rated 3.75 stars. The story doesn’t flow as well as I remembered, and the romance feels somewhat forced, but the book is still fun to read and beautifully written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

hinata_boke's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

• The concept of the book is pretty interesting, but a lot of the neat dystopian aspects are clouded by the romance subplots.
• Too much flowery language and weird editing made it a bit annoying to read - though I'm willing to accept that as intentional if it's written as Juliette's stream of consciousness.
• This is first-person narrated, which is not my cup of tea. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, War, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Child death and Injury/Injury detail