Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

61 reviews

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Genocide, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Domestic abuse and Rape

theonlyjete's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Stalking, Rape, Sexual violence, Cursing, Confinement, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, and Vomit

prawntaar's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? No

3.75

I walked away really mixed feelings about this book.  The scenes/elements that I really liked, I REALLY liked.  There were a couple of scenes that were just written really well and I liked how the dialog was written (with a couple of exceptions).  At the same time, this book was also really cliché in a really lame way.  It had a great first and second act.  The third/final act left so much to be desired.  I'm genuinely conflicted about reading the rest of the series.

Poppy is a cool character.  It's easy to fall into the trope that a strong female character is simply one who doesn't follow the rules and then just go insubordinate=strong-willed.  Poppy has motive and her own reason why she does X or Y and I really appreciated that about her.  

It really felt like this author's publisher insisted that the ending be re-written.  I feel like there is such a difference in tone in that final 150pgs.  We take such an odd and drastic left turn with the Hawke character near the end that I can't believe that is where this author intended to go with this story.  I also largely feel like we're left with a Hawke character that is irredeemable in the worst way.  That could have been intentional and I suppose reading subsequent books might better explain that decision to me, but I just feel like I'm left with this cruel, suddenly crazy, and unforgivable character that I'm just uninterested in reading any more about.  It almost ruined the book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

I would have liked there to have been a little bit more consent with regard to the sexual relations between characters. This book walks a fine line, where it's the first person POV so as a reader, I know what Poppy is and is not okay with, but other characters don't have that same information. When it comes to full on sex, there is explicit consent. It's all the other sexual touches that seem to not have to follow that rule.

Hawke just acts throughout a lot of the novel that he gets to touch Poppy however he pleases. There is at least one sexual encounter between Poppy and Hawke where he's telling her "you know you want it" and she doesn't really respond to him yay or nay. He doesn't really ask, either. Just continues to tell her that "this is what she wants." and then puts his hands down her pants. As a reader, Poppy is telling me that this is something she's into, and that's cool. But that information isn't really shared with Hawke and he doesn't really seem to care what she does or doesn't want.

gabibrose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Death of parent, and Child death

strangersarah's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

abibliofile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Torture

mmqin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

jodiesackettbrown's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Okay, waaayyy too much graphic sexual content for my liking, but that aside...WOW! 

Without spoiling the delicious surprise toward the last fifth of the book, this is a wonderful bit of storytelling weaving and recasting bits of existing monster folklore with original myths in a masterful way. Though I could see a few story moves telegraphed in advance, there were loads of plot twists I didn't see coming--how delightful?! 

I'm glad I stuck with this one--I almost didn't. The start was a bit slow and previewed the graphic sexuality that resurfaced more than a few times and the push for overt consent was a bit heavy handed. This caused me to start and stop reading about three times before I committed. I listened to this on audiobook and finally at about the 3.5 hour mark, I was solidly hooked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, and Violence

librariesoflindsey's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

0.25

This book contains many harmful stereotypes, romanticizes sexual coercion and assault, and fails at adding diversity. Furthermore it feels like every other similar popular YA/NA fantasy I've read (most specifically ACOTAR and the Cruel Prince). I would not recommend this book to anyone wishing to have a fun time reading a light hearted book, as this book is over all terrible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Please take the trigger warnings of sexual assault, coercion, and violence seriously. The main romance is a romanticization and normalization of sexual assault and manipulation.

katt's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

This book had some issues. I saw someone else review about the weird century incongruities and I totally agree. It was confusing there could be electricity but warfare still only uses swords and daggers. Also this book just had rampant emotional manipulation from everyone. I found this exhausting. 

 And maybe I’ve just seen this too much, but,

I am sick of seeing 200+ year old vampires/immortals with 18 year old girls and I felt the way this book was written weirdly fetishizes the 18 year old primary protagonists virginity. I also felt the way the abuse by the duke and Lord Mazeen was portrayed was almost as a titillation not as the horrible emotional and physical torture it was. I find those types of scenarios hard to read no matter what, but, I wish it had been dealt with in a more delicate manner

Unfortunately I think I’ll read the next book because I’m always too curious about what will happen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Misogyny