Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

A Verdade Sobre o Caso Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker, Isabel St. Aubyn

25 reviews

maddalcna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide attempt, Stalking, Homophobia, Hate crime, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

mellothien's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Pedophilia and Murder

lesyich's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Mental illness, Child abuse, Rape, and Child death

elissareadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

0.25

This book made me viscerally angry. I don't know if I've ever been so mad and frustrated with a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Self harm, Pedophilia, Murder, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Ableism

Moderate: Racism and Antisemitism

Minor: Homophobia

arminam's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

I don't mind reading a book where an adult and a minor have a relationship, but this one just keeps saying that this shit is true love, which, ew, she's a kid, man !
That aside the rest of the story is good, nothing exceptional but still nice to read. Though it was WAY too long for what it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia

The whole story centres the relationship betwewn a 34-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl, which is treated as "true love". Also probably not true depiction of mental illness.