Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

110 reviews

gabngo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

niebezpiecznygroszek's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

mmestitches's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

Powerful boo, but stressful to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lay_kone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

noahsingh's review

challenging dark fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, and Classism

imogenclendinning's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

wormgirl's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

edevoe8891's review

dark sad tense medium-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism

donegcol000'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

4.25

Vivid world to the point of terror at how prescient a lot of the "predictions" this book made. Obviously a work of fiction and one with a very negative outlook on human nature (although an argument could be made that it's more about human nature under a system like modern capitalism) but with a terrifying feeling that at least some of what butler proposes is likely to happen. <Spoiler> neo slavery and water crises leading to violence in particular seem to have a dark tinge of reality to them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

itsnai's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism