Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Medusa's Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear

25 reviews

bookcaptivated's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Death, Sexism, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Torture

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, Abortion, Alcohol, and Abandonment

teganbeesebooks's review

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Body horror, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Rape, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Violence

01_in_emilyon's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

brandtl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This book deserves soooooo much more attention than it has so far! There are so many Greek mythology retellings these days, and so many of them are mediocre, but this one shines above a lot of them. So many retellings suffer from the fact that they are just a well-known story told again, but this one took such a different angle to a well know popular myth, and focused on characters not usually focused on. And rather than simply telling the story from their perspective, it deepened the story and added complexity that made it more interesting despite knowing how the original myth ends! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

pageturnerpam's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

kellkie's review against another edition

challenging 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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

pn_hinton's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

fkshg8465's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

3.0

There were pockets of passages that were great to read, but I was bored for the most part, which was disappointing because there’s a lot of good storytelling to be had in any mythological canons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Torture, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Bullying, Abandonment, Rape, Murder, Physical abuse, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Sexual harassment, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

lillypad827's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I’ve always been drawn to Greek mythology and deeply enjoyed Madeline Miller’s books and wanted to give this one a shot too. This was so much darker than I could have anticipated. It’s a fascinating story and held my interest, though it was a bit slow in the very beginning. My biggest qualm with this was a lack of content warning. Not everyone knows the myth of how and why Medusa was cursed.

There was a graphic depiction of sexual assault that I was unprepared for.

Regardless of this being fantasy, content warnings are essential.

I also found the character of Euryales so unlikeable which made it hard to read her chapters sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

moonblaze7's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death and Abortion