Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

18 reviews

blklagoon's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Maybe it’s the former disgusting-Edinburgh-cinema-employee in me speaking but this was the most visceral and vivid book I’ve ever read. It hit too close to my own experience, in the most eerie way, until about the last 30 pages. I’m not sure how wide the appeal is as my connection is so personal but the descriptions objectively are equally beautiful and horrific. I need to talk about this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Excrement, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Vomit, Sexual content, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Abortion, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Body horror

barbarella85's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

bocker_enligt_angelica's review

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

Ja…. Vad ska man skriva? Det här är inte något för den svagmagade. Gränsen mellan verklighet och vad som är en del av de drogpåverkade karaktärerna är knappt synbar. 
Jag kan känna popcorndoften även då jag lagt boken ifrån mig och scener ur boken får mig att känna mig allmänt olustig. 
Jag är imponerad och jag är glad att jag läst den men jag vill nog inte uppleva den igen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Alcoholism, Vomit, Drug use, Abortion, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual content

catarinamcor's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

0.5

I’ve never given a classification of less than 2 to any book, and never wrote a full review but this book was simply beyond my tolerance for disturbing descriptions. The only reason I did not DNF this book was because I listened to the audiobook on my commute and it was a short one. I found it to be a story based almost exclusively on awful, gratuitously disgusting  descriptions, unlikable characters and pretentious references/comments. The plot was almost nonexistent, but predictable for the biggest events, and I could not find a purpose for reading through it. I do not recommend this read, and especially not at meal times!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Excrement, Suicide, Vomit, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual content

what_g_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Death, Self harm, Gore, Alcohol, Blood, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

linguaphile412's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

Moderate: Alcohol, Abortion, Addiction, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Violence, Sexual violence, and Drug abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

feebles640's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death, Drug use, Vomit, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide, and Excrement

pun1sher's review

i think I need to stop reading weird fiction because i keep thinking that I'll end up liking one of these stories but at this point I doubt that will happen 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Abortion

Moderate: Excrement, Sexual content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis