Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler

9 reviews

aloy's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence and Slavery

Minor: Violence and Rape

scifi_rat's review

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.25

Plot: 3.75★
Prose: 4★
Pace: 3.5★
Concept/Execution: 3.75★/4★
Characters: 4★
Worldbuilding:4★
Ending: 4.25★

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Incest, Pregnancy, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, War, Xenophobia, Body horror, Chronic illness, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Biphobia, Sexism, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Rape, Sexual assault, and Vomit

jeanbpdx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Slavery, Violence, and Sexism

gellyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.0

Only a whole star higher because of the bi, harem-wanting queen known as Amber! This book was so confusing. I feel like the first two in the series were so much stronger. I didn't care for this protagonist either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Classism, Murder, Death, Rape, Incest, Violence, and Slavery

belovedsnail's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

The end of the series or the beginning, depending how you count. Some interesting things and again a meditation on the abuses of power.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Torture

lottiegasp's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I liked but did not love this series. I did really love Wild Seed when I read it a few years ago (maybe because I hadn't read much fantasy/scifi to develop my tastes or Butler's writing improved as the first in the series was the last published?) But I read the 2nd-4th recently and found them all just okay. Sometimes the writing is disjointed, like the dialogue is unconvincing or the characters will act or speak in seemingly contradictory ways. But the ideas are quite interesting, I.e. the mind-reading "pattern" and the virus that creates the new species Clayarks, and the ways that power hierarchies manifest across gender, race (it's not so specific in Patternmaster but plays a bigger role in the other 3 books) and I guess you could call it "sub-species"/ability/neurotype (that is, the 3 fictional types of humans or human-like species, the Patternists, Clayarks and so-called mutes who have no powers and haven't caught the virus)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, War, Rape, and Incest

thenonbinaryc's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Vomit, Violence, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Animal death, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

bookiecharm's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, and Sexism

Minor: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Slavery

kukushka's review against another edition

dark 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape