Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

49 reviews

lilylikesbookslol's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Homophobia and Incest

mrsjoellebell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity, Eating disorder, and Forced institutionalization

cpete's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Murder, Medical trauma, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Pedophilia, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship

sunshinemonarch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

3.25

I live in feminicide capital. Idk why i did this to myself. 
Narrative’s hard and often frustrating to follow. Topics are either too focussed on body issues or too frustrating to follow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Grief, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Death, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Homophobia, and Dementia

fitzsilu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Murder, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Eating disorder, Dementia, Homophobia, and Incest

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

If I still need to explain toxic masculinity to anyone who’s read this book, I give up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Homophobia, Mental illness, Child death, Blood, Violence, Lesbophobia, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Dementia, Confinement, Death of parent, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Rape

songbird72's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This book tells the fictionalized story of victims and survivors of Ted Bundy in the 1970s--one in Florida and one in Washington.  I was excited to read this because of all the buzz it received and because I liked that it focused on the victims' side of the story.    Great premise but it just didn't deliver for me.  One of the themes of the book was how differently women were viewed and treated in the 70's and I did think that was interesting but it was more a side theme than a main focus.    I found the main characters somewhat unlikeable and thought the story followed too many rabbit trails.   

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Grief, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

kayleestout's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Murder, Stalking, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping

florecita_lectora's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Murder, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Gore

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, and Dementia

albon's review against another edition

dark emotional 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: Violence, Outing, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, Car accident, Child death, Rape, and Blood

Minor: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest