Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

50 reviews

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective tense medium-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

3.0

Hm theres a lot a didnt like about this: mainly the start (it was boring and i didnt care), i dont really have any strong feelings toward any of the main characters, it felt like there were too many characters it took me a hot minute to remember who people were and why did you have to make her life so suddenly problematic

Like we went from hm yeah im very in debt and my mother died and im grieving, fair enough. To im very in debt, my mother died, debt collectors are after me, im about to be evicted, no one will publish my book, i have no friends, i have a endo, i have breast cancer, i have skin cancer, the chef at work if sexually harrassing me oh wait i got fired, i cant sleep, my father is a nonce who wants my dead mothers ring back and both the men i might be into are being weird.

 Like, babe, what? You didnt need to go that hard fr

All that being said for some reason i didnt hate it and vaguely even enjoyed reading it?

‘you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

e11en's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual harassment

remib's review

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Sexual harassment

whitne_ey's review

emotional funny reflective sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility, Cancer, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abandonment

elanuruysal's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content and Cancer

Minor: Sexual harassment

confuusedcreaturex4's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I tried my best  to think about this book and  what I think about it but in general i know i didn't hate it hence the 3 stars but  also i know that i didn't love it that much ,i liked casey and i loved reading her thoughts and feelings but what made the book so dull to me was the excessive descriptions of places and things ,after some point i start reading them very fast without trying that much to focus on every single thing and imagine it and that makes me feel bad cause i liked to swallow every single word of the books i read and to drown myself completely in a character'  inner monologue but i dont know why i struggled to enjoy that in this book,it was also a bit confusing at some points and hard to understand her decisions and thoughts but again im willing to day that it couldve been because of me rushing with it sometimes(could be adhd :})
Also depsite finishing it fast and reading 100 pages a day i still felt like it was long ,like it all was dragged up a bit too long 
Finally ,i can say i liked the book ,would i remember it so dearly in my heart ,no ,would i reread it ,also i doubt ,unless when im older and (hopefully not tho )i feel like i could relate to her more ,its like someone you meet at a party or smth and you like them and u become almost friends but just for this night and u know they won't have much more place in your life and obviously that is fine
++last also ,i really loved that the last scene contained the geese i like when a certain external detail in the environment of the story represents something more and become a big part of the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexual harassment

atamano's review

emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Abandonment, Infertility, and Homophobia

hanngigi's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pedophilia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

zoiejanelle's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

while i understand the merits of this book (its examination of grief, commentary on publishing, feminist themes, messaging about identity, adulthood, and relationships) it wasn’t for me.

truly, men are trash. i don’t need to read more books about how men consistently screw women over in every aspect of life. i liked Casey’s voice, and i heavily related to her constant crises about writing, who she was outside of her craft, and wondering when life was really supposed to start, but the writing style and pacing didn’t stick the landing for me. 

i do think this would be something i could recommend to someone going through similar things—career changes, losing a loved one, questioning what it means to be a grown up—but it wouldn’t be my first choice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pregnancy and Cancer

rayannotates's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Rape