Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

La Gloire à tout prix by Emily Tesh

105 reviews

malhale's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and War

Minor: Sexual assault

rsb12'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Genocide, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and War

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring 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

If I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. An unlikable female lead, THE CHARACTER ARC, social commentary I just 😍 Reminded me a bit of Red Rising, and I would not complain if Emily Tesh wrote 20 more books in this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and Abortion

bookishwondergoth's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective tense fast-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

4.75

Not quite 5 stars but sooooooo close. This book was an absolute ride and I adored every moment. There was a bit of a lull in the middle and I got whiplash a few times with all the changes, but ultimately this was a fantastic examination of cult mentality, facism, radicalisation and deconstruction of dangerously right-wing views. Absolutely brilliant. Will be reading more of Emily Tesh's books for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood

lizthelizard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious fast-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

Really enjoyed this - check the CWs. I found this to be creative and engaging and actually very fun for having such deeply dark content matter at times. Had a great time reading it, and it took a turn every time I thought I might figure out where the story was settling.

The ending thing with the hair touching was weird as heck though ngl. Could have left that out as it made the actual character growth feel cheaper than it should.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

frogggirl2's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

This book wants to deal with a lot of weighty, dark topics (genocide, misogyny, facism, racism) but it does it in a very superficial way because this is YA so it can't really get to where it needs to go to meaningfully discuss these themes.  This book is very simplistic.  

When you give characters do-overs, it removes the tension from the plot.  This book would have been much more interesting if the first true ending of the book was the actual ending of the book.  Far too happy and ending for everything that goes on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Gaslighting

blacksphinx's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, and War

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

Minor: Bullying and Abortion

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Medical content, Abortion, and Alcohol

The xenophobia tag refers to opinions some characters in the book have about aliens.

westvaleabby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail