Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

494 reviews

abhi_vijay94's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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 violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Drug use

Moderate: Self harm, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship

aileron's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Rape

Moderate: Self harm and Animal death

Minor: Body shaming and Classism

makingandbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

Outstanding. Loved this. Utterly obsessed with Irina and her distorted view of herself and her world. The whole book is deeply disturbing, told from Irina's perspective who is an incredible unreliable narrator. As her mental health deteriorates, her substance abuse worsens and the line between reality and imagination blurs.

Did she commit murder or was it all imagined?

That's up to the reader to decide and I have a feeling I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Sexual violence

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

anna_2022's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Death, Vomit, Violence, and Sexual assault

twentythreeandahalf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Vomit, Violence, Rape, Body horror, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Blood, Murder, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship

yorggeorg's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Cursing, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Violence, Vomit, Blood, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

anglefish's review against another edition

If the main character is this annoying and unlikable 16 pages in, then I will simply not be able to power through this.

Like I’m immediately turned off by the condescension, the crocodile tears and her not really giving a fuck about the fact that KID being SIXTEEN and trying to sell them pictures!! Like what is actually going on rn??

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Eating disorder

megmax's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

4.5

this was so fucked up but i couldn’t stop reading it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Self harm, Drug use, and Drug abuse

zeldazonks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

4.5

Femcel, American Psycho vibes. 
This book made me feel so icky and just despondent in a way I'm not sure I've experienced when reading a book before. It was genuinely challenging to read but also so compelling. I've read a lot of books with unlikeable, problematic women protagonists but Irina Sturgess is on another level.
I didn't like the pacing of the text conversations, perhaps it works better not as an audiobook but it was quite tedious for the more mundane text threads of them arranging nights out or whatever, and that put me off a little. But when you're just listening to Irina's villain monologues it's horrifically fascinating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Eating disorder, Murder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

tayo2000's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this. 

Boy Parts is a thoroughly engrossing (and gruesome? Brutal? Unhinged??) exploration of gender and sexuality. The power of men over women looked at through the lens of a female protagonist (antagonist?) flipping the narrative on its head. I think I will certainly need some more time to fully digest this and sort my thoughts. Rest assured though this is a five star read. 

Irina is also a sociopath, but that’s a conversation for another time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Self harm, Sexual content, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse