Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

110 reviews

daysanchez's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mald626's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

tayngerous's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Incest and Pedophilia

happylilfaerie's review

dark reflective sad

2.5

The more I think about this book the less I like it. Americans have “become” evil and are raping, torturing and cannibalising each other. Where does evil come from? Why are women and girls being raped every page but not a single man is raped? Drug users are usually seeking an escape and to be able to cope with life, in this book they are evil people who want to set others on fire, why? 

None of the interesting aspects bought up were explored - hyperempathy, company towns, how to live off the land, and building community in disaster.

The masses walking on foot from one part of the country to another to seek safety and resources echoes very familiarly to me as an Iraqi. Just look at Falisteen right now. We help each other, protect each other, share our food etc.  I suppose a population as savage and uncivilised as the west couldn’t be expected to know how to behave when resources become scarce. 

Why was the unethical relationship between a teenager and a 57 year old, a whole 40 years older, normalised and made to seem okay? That man is a predator, I don’t give a shit how “mature” the child seems. 

The side characters kind of blurred together, instead of personality and development, they were given sob backstories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, and Cannibalism

ib_ratton's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? No

5.0

Leave it to Octavia Butler to predict the fall of civilization in 2024...

I love literary apocalypse books like these! The character focus, the slow changes of society to ruin, and the need for man to band together to create something better are themes heavy in this book. And although they're not any original ideas, the writing is truly unique and makes the story extremely compelling. 

Trigger warnings for just about everything as the book touches on some gruesome topics. But if you like Books like The Road by Cormac McCarthy, you'll enjoy this one even more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Slavery, Trafficking, and Cannibalism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

intheafrofuture's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was almost a survival guide with proof that everything changes, yet stays the same.  It wasn't a plot-driven book but it kept you wanting to know if the characters are simply okay.  I find it fascinating that as a reader I found myself criticizing my beliefs and questioning my morals.  What would I do to survive? And do I truly believe in anything other than change?  I think my biggest takeaway from this is that we all can always trust that change will come.  ALSO even though its a dystopian novel, it felt WAY too close to home.  Way too possible and that's why I feel as though Octavia Butler wasn't writing to us but was creating a guide to living through change. (Ending was disappointing, real but disappointing)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Cannibalism, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pedophilia

cynopsis's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

jillian_mon's review

adventurous challenging dark inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Violence, and Murder

mgrim10's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent