Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

128 reviews

selenyigini's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Police brutality

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Minor: Classism

annabella's review against another edition

challenging emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

Need to read again as kept falling asleep and library loan ran out but loved the narrators voice in the audiobook. Lots of emotion but more graphic than I expected

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

ashyq's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

author2223's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Misogyny, and Racism

elle_e_d_light's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This book was dark, but Mottley did a fantastic job for a debut. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

It's inspired by the 2015 Oakland Police Department sexual misconduct scandal.

hilarylouise's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Transphobia

kaimetcalfe's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Grief

theblushbookworm's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Wow, it’s a mind-boggling experience to read a book with such beautiful prose about a subject so dark. In order to stay off the streets, 17-year-old Kiara is now working on the streets in sex work by first accident, always necessity, and later coercion. Kiara is supporting herself, her older brother, and her neglected 9-year-old neighbor. They all find themselves parentless as a trauma took away Kiara’s mother,  death her father, and drugs her neighbor’s mother. The rich tapestry of characters in this book just trying to make it and the often judged “choices” they make to do so is treated with so much care and nuance. This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, and an epic reminder of the humanity of all sex workers and in the inhumanity of some cops. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

srobertson's review

dark emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing sad 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? Yes

3.0

Harrowing! Child turns to sex work to pay bills thanks to deadbeat family. Horrifyingly inspired by true events. NB ACAB! 3🚔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism